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Another advantage to Virtual reality rehab over the traditional method is patient motivation. When presented with difficult tasks during a prolonged period, patients tend to loose interest in these tasks. This causes a decrease in compliance due to decreased motivation of completing a given task. Virtual reality rehab is advantageous in such a way that it challenges and motivates the patient to do more. With simple things like high scores, in game awards, and ranks not only are they motivated to do there daily therapies they are having fun doing it. Not only is this advantageous to the patients, it is advantageous to the physical therapist. With these high scores, and data the game or application collects, therapist can analyze the data to see progression. This progression can be charted and visually shown to the patient for increased motivation on there performance and the progression they have made thus far in there therapies, This data can then be charted with other participants doing similar tasks and can show how they compare to people with similar therapy regimens. This charted data in the program or game can then be used by researchers and scientist alike for further evaluation of optimal therapy regimens. A recent study done in 2016 where a VR based virtual simulation of a city named Reh@City was made. This city in virtual reality evoked memory, attention, visuo-spatial abilities and executive functions tasks are integrated in the performance of several daily routines. This study looked at Activities of Daily Living in post stroke patients and found it to have more of an impact than conventional methods in the recovery process.

Suggested Edits for Virtual Reality Therapy

 * You got a lot on your plate, Arfan
 * Many which primary resources are cited in this article, which is not ideal for wikimed articles
 * finding secondary resources on Virtual Reality Therapy might be beneficial, but may prove difficult since VR therapy is new, controversial and not standard of care
 * There is a lot superscript edits in the article asking for sources and elaboration. You could start there.
 * Good luck!
 * thanks for the response.

Jbs1001 (talk) 09:42, 5 April 2018 (UTC)