Unilateral spatial neglect rehabilitation supported by a digital solution: two case-studies

摘要

Digital solutions for unilateral spatial neglect (USN) assessment and treatment are nowadays of great interest, because of both the possibility of combining them with other rehabilitation practices, and the easy-to-understand data and indicators they collect. The ReMoVES platform, developed in DITEN laboratories, is conceived in the Assistive Technologies framework and provides motor and cognitive exergames and activities to be performed in conjunction with traditional rehabilitation.In this work, two case-studies, related to the USN rehabilitation, are presented. The combination of cognitive therapy, delivered by the ReMoVES platform, and transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) technique was used as rehabilitation treatment for both the patients.Data collected at the beginning or at the end of the rehabilitation process, or also during the treatment sessions, are shown and discussed in this paper. This work is a preliminary part of a wider one, that will be conducted involving many different rehabilitation centers, aimed at proving the validity of such an approach to USN treatments.