Background
stoke, upper limb disabilities, Stroke
NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE, STROKE
Neurological rehabilitation is crucial to public health, as a substantial part of the population is affected by neurological diseases throughout their life. Stroke, for example, has a one-year-prevalence of about 1.6% in the German adult population, increasing with age to over 6% in people over the age of 75 [After damage to the central nervous system, neural plasticity enables the brain to adapt in response to motor learning [AR generally has beneficial effects for the learning of spatial tasks [Therefore, in patients with upper limb disabilities due to stoke, our approach was to combine AR with a robotic device to administer a serious gaming therapy. We were also particularly interested if it was possible to create a gaming situation with an easily perceptible depth dimension.The objective of this pilot proof-of-concept study was to evaluate the device’s safety, clinical feasibility, usability, and potential benefits, as recommended by Maciejasz et al. [