Efeitos do treino de realidade virtual na participação social de indivíduos hemiparéticos: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

Introduction: Patients who had suffered cerebrovascular accident have diverse sequelae and impairment which have impact on body structure, execution of daily living activities and social participation. Virtual reality is a resource that is been used to help functional recovery and social participation in this patients. Objective: to systematically review the literature evidence on the effects of the use of virtual reality in the recovery of the social participation of hemiparetic individuals after stroke. Methods: an electronic research was performed, using an optimized strategy in the Medline, Scielo, CINAHL, Web of Science, LILACS and PEDro databases. The studies were analyzed by two independent reviewers regarding eligibility and data extraction and disagreements were resolved by a third evaluator. There were no restrictions on language or publication period. The methodological quality of the articles was evaluated by PEDro scale. Results: the search returned 2485 articles and 2474 were excluded after analysis. Outcome measures investigated were social views and quality of life. All studies revealed that the use of virtual reality brought benefits to patients, but only 4 reported significant improvement in regard to outcomes of interest. Conclusion: this work revealed that the use of virtual reality can be promising in the rehabilitation of hemiparetic individuals. However, the results are not yet conclusive in relation to social participation. This demonstrates a need for more studies evaluating the benefits of this resource, what could makes it possible to have more reliability to recommend the use of virtual reality