TY - JOUR
T1 - Impaired short-term motor learning in multiple sclerosis
T2 - Evidence from virtual reality
AU - Leocani, Letizia
AU - Comi, Eleonora
AU - Annovazzi, Pietro
AU - Rovaris, Marco
AU - Rossi, Paolo
AU - Cursi, Marco
AU - Comola, Mauro
AU - Martinelli, Vittorio
AU - Comi, Giancarlo
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - Objective. Virtual reality (VR) has been proposed as a potentially useful tool for motor assessment and rehabilitation. The objective of this study was to investigate the usefulness of VR in the assessment of short-term motor learning in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods. Twelve right-handed MS patients and 12 control individuals performed a motor-tracking task with their right upper limb, following the trajectory of an object projected on a screen along with online visual feedback on hand position from a sensor on the index finger. A pretraining test (3 trials), a training phase (12 trials), and a posttraining test (3 trials) were administered. Distances between performed and required trajectory were computed. Results. Both groups performed worse in depth planes compared to the frontal (x,z) plane (P
AB - Objective. Virtual reality (VR) has been proposed as a potentially useful tool for motor assessment and rehabilitation. The objective of this study was to investigate the usefulness of VR in the assessment of short-term motor learning in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods. Twelve right-handed MS patients and 12 control individuals performed a motor-tracking task with their right upper limb, following the trajectory of an object projected on a screen along with online visual feedback on hand position from a sensor on the index finger. A pretraining test (3 trials), a training phase (12 trials), and a posttraining test (3 trials) were administered. Distances between performed and required trajectory were computed. Results. Both groups performed worse in depth planes compared to the frontal (x,z) plane (P
KW - Motor learning
KW - Multiple sclerosis
KW - Upper limb
KW - Virtual reality.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34247351097&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=34247351097&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1545968306294913
DO - 10.1177/1545968306294913
M3 - Article
C2 - 17351084
AN - SCOPUS:34247351097
VL - 21
SP - 273
EP - 278
JO - Journal of Neurologic Rehabilitation
JF - Journal of Neurologic Rehabilitation
SN - 1545-9683
IS - 3
ER -