Stroke is one of the most common causes of acquired disability, leaving numerous adults with
cognitive and motor impairments, and affecting patient’s capability to live independently. In
post-stroke it is imperative to initiate a process of intensive rehabilitation and personalized
objectives to maximize functional cognitive and motor recovery. Virtual Reality (VR)
technology is being widely applied to rehabilitation of stroke, however, not in an integrative
manner. Like traditional rehabilitation, these new tools mostly focus either in the cognitive or
in the motor domain, which can take to a reduced impact in the performance of activities of
daily living, most of them dual-task. Assuming the existence of cognitive and motor recovery
interdependence, RehabNet proposes a holistic approach. Here we present a one-month long
pilot study with three stroke patients whose training was a game-like VR version of the
Toulouse-Piéron cancellation test, adapted to be performed by repetitive arm reaching
movements. A standardized motor and cognitive assessment was performed pre and post
intervention. The first results on this intervention support a holistic model for rehabilitation of
stroke patients, sustaining interdependence on cognitive and motor recovery. Furthermore, we
observed that the impact of the integrative VR approach generalizes to the performance of the
activities of daily living.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
