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Emerging Approaches to Cognitive and Physical Virtual Rehabilitation

Edited by:
Emily A. Keshner, PT, EdD, Dept. of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Temple University, United States of America
Naomi Gefen, PhD, ALYN Hospital, Hebrew University, Israel

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The Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation invites participating authors to submit to our Collection on Emerging Approaches to Cognitive and Physical Virtual Rehabilitation.

This Collection contains representative publications emerging from the 15th International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (WCISVR2023) sponsored by the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (ISVR). The main purpose of ISVR is to encourage research, education, advocacy, and collaboration between researchers, clinicians, industry, and policy makers regarding virtual rehabilitation and tele-rehabilitation. 

This Collection of articles demonstrates only a portion of the scope of virtual reality (VR) based research that is currently taking place in both the cognitive and physical rehabilitation arenas. 

The included articles range from research on recovery of motor control with disease and injury, to the use of VR technologies in novel interventions for children and adults. All these studies reflect how including VR technology in the rehabilitation process will enhance our ability to shape rehabilitation interventions following the principles of Human-Centered and Participatory design. 

This Collection of articles has not been sponsored and articles have undergone the journal's standard peer-review process overseen by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors. 

The Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors declare no competing interests.

  1. Neurorehabilitation is fundamental to improve outcomes for patients recovering from injury to the central nervous system. Access to neurorehabilitation is limited by resource shortages; the consequences of whi...

    Authors: William Stephen Bolton, Rohitashwa Sinha, Sara Cooper, Oluwaseyi Adebola, Elisa Stephenson, Seonaid Ewan, Rachel Hunsley, Victoria Kearton, David Stevens and Ryan Koshy Mathew
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2025 22:45
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Head-mounted displays can be used to offer personalized immersive virtual reality (IVR) training for patients who have suffered an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) by tailoring the complexity of visual and auditory...

    Authors: Salvatore Luca Cucinella, Joost C. F. de Winter, Erik Grauwmeijer, Marc Evers and Laura Marchal-Crespo
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2025 22:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a common neurological condition marked by damage to the spinal cord. In the field of neurological rehabilitation, virtual reality (VR) is increasingly employed for evaluating and ad...

    Authors: Likun Wang, Hong Zhang, Haibo Ai and Yuxi Liu
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:191
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. Directional vibrotactile biofeedback for balance control can be instructed in the form of Repulsive (to move in the opposite direction of vibrations) or Attractive (to move in the direction of vibrations) stimulu...

    Authors: Katrin H. Schulleri, Farbod Feizian, Martina Steinböck, Dongheui Lee and Leif Johannsen
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:184
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Stroke frequently results in upper limb motor dysfunction, with traditional therapies often failing to yield sufficient improvements. Emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and noninvasive brain st...

    Authors: Nuo Zhang, Hujun Wang, Hanming Wang and Shuyan Qie
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:179
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. The handstand is an essential skill in acrobatic sports. This skill requires the athlete to maintain an inverted upright stance with only the hands supported, which requires a great effort of muscular coordina...

    Authors: Rafael Sabido, Fernando García-Aguilar, Carla Caballero and Francisco J. Moreno
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:171
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Digital health technologies are increasingly used by healthcare professionals working in pediatric hospital and rehabilitation settings. Multiple factors may affect the implementation and use of digital health...

    Authors: Isabelle Roy, Julia Salles, Erika Neveu, Danaë Lariviére-Bastien, Aurélie Blondin, Danielle Levac and Miriam H. Beauchamp
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:156
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Restoration of limb function for individuals with unilateral weakness typically requires volitional muscle control, which is often not present for individuals with severe impairment. Mirror therapy—interventio...

    Authors: Trevor A. Norris, Thomas E. Augenstein, Kazandra M. Rodriguez, Edward S. Claflin and Chandramouli Krishnan
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:154
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. Worldwide, children with cerebral palsy (CP) living in underserved communities face barriers to accessing motor therapy services. This study assessed the implementation and effectiveness of an 8-week, upper li...

    Authors: Daniela Chan-Víquez, Heilyn Fernández-Huertas, Carles Montserrat-Gonzalez, Ajmal Khan, Darcy Fehlings, Sarah Munce, F. Virginia Wright and Elaine Biddiss
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:151
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. This parallel, randomized controlled trial examined intrinsic motivation, adherence and motor function improvement demonstrated by two groups of subjects that performed a 12-week, home-based upper extremity re...

    Authors: Gerard Fluet, Qinyin Qiu, Amanda Gross, Holly Gorin, Jigna Patel, Alma Merians and Sergei Adamovich
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:143
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. The increase in cases of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) underlines the urgency of finding effective methods to slow its progression. Given the limited effectiveness of current pharmacological options to preve...

    Authors: Jorge Buele, Fátima Avilés-Castillo, Carolina Del-Valle-Soto, José Varela-Aldás and Guillermo Palacios-Navarro
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:130
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:149

  12. Hybrid models that integrate both in-person and remote health services are increasingly recognized as a promising approach. Nevertheless, research that defines and characterizes these models in children and yo...

    Authors: Tal Krasovsky, Patrice L. Weiss, Liat Gafni-Lachter, Rachel Kizony and Naomi Gefen
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:122
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:139

  13. Video-feedback observational therapy (VOT) is an intensive rehabilitation technique based on movement repetition and visualization that has shown benefits for motor rehabilitation of the upper and lower limbs....

    Authors: Ahmed Adham, Ba Thien Le, Julien Bonnal, Hugo Bessaguet, Etienne Ojardias, Pascal Giraux and Pascal Auzou
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:114
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. Virtual reality (VR) Rehabilitation holds the potential to address the challenge that patients feel bored and give up long-term rehabilitation training. Despite the introduction of gaming elements by some rese...

    Authors: Chengjie Zhang, Suiran Yu and Jiancheng Ji
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:113
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  15. Treadmill gait training has been shown to improve gait performance in People with Parkinson’s Disease (PwPD), and in combination with Virtual Reality, it can be an effective tool for gait rehabilitation. The a...

    Authors: Pere Bosch-Barceló, Maria Masbernat-Almenara, Oriol Martínez-Navarro, Carlos Tersa-Miralles, Anni Pakarinen and Helena Fernández-Lago
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:107
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. Individuals with a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (m/sTBI), despite experiencing good locomotor recovery six months post-injury, face challenges in adapting their locomotion to the environment. They...

    Authors: Thiago de Aquino Costa Sousa, Isabelle J. Gagnon, Karen Z.H. Li, Bradford J. McFadyen and Anouk Lamontagne
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:80
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Degenerative lumbar spine disease (DLD) is a prevalent condition in middle-aged and elderly individuals. DLD frequently results in pain, muscle weakness, and motor impairment, which affect postural stability a...

    Authors: Yi-Ching Tsai, Wei-Li Hsu, Phunsuk Kantha, Po-Jung Chen and Dar-Ming Lai
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:74
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. The visual system and associated skills are of particular importance in stroke rehabilitation. The process of neuroplasticity involved in restoring cognitive function during this period is mainly based on anat...

    Authors: Marc Niering and Johanna Seifert
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:41
    Content type: Review Published on:

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This Collection welcomes submission of original articles and systematic reviews. 

Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Emerging Approaches to Cognitive and Physical Virtual Rehabilitation" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.