Assessment of Perception in Lower Limb Amputees of Rehabilitative Physical Therapy Complemented with Virtual Reality

Abstract

The present essay describes the perceptions and attitudes of a group of 111 lower limb amputees who have been on a physical therapy and rehabilitation program intended to achieve a final adaptation of a Lower limb prosthesis and accepted to add a virtual reality-supported therapy tool as a complementary reinforcement. The program started up attending an instructional training session based on a desktop non-immersive 360 virtual reality training video. In the video an avatar performs 5 series of 3 timed repetitions of the following routine: Kicking, Squatting, Cycling, March . At the end each participant filled a questionnaire of 5 items asking for perceptional attitudes as: Utility, Gratification, assimilability, Recommendability and understandability. the results found high rates of general acceptability and receptibility.  the bivariate analysis was found with no statistical significance.