Effect of Virtual Reality on Balance and Gait Speed With Alzheimer's Dementia

The Effect of Virtual Reality Application on Balance and Gait Speed in Individuals With Alzheimer's Dementia

The aim of study is to investigate the effect of virtual reality application on balance and gait speed in individuals with Alzheimer's Dementia.

The aim of study is to investigate the effect of virtual reality application on balance and gait speed in individuals with Alzheimer's Dementia. The study consisted of 32 subjects, which were diagnosed as mild or moderate AD by the neurologist. The balance, fall risks and gait speed were assessed. Training group was trained with games selected from different categories such as balance and aerobic exercises with Nintendo Wii virtual reality device for 6 weeks, 1 session 30 min, 2 times a week.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having mild or moderate severity of AD
• Lack of communication difficulties or problems
• Volunteering to participate in the study
• Cerebrovascular event,
• Having disturbing the balance and coordination of neurological disease such as Parkinson, MS,
• Mini Mental Test Score, 18 to 24 points from being scored
• being 65-80 aged.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients diagnosed with dementia (infection, vascular, hematological diseases), patients who could not be contacted during the follow-up period or who did not come to control, cardiac and cerebrovascular event,
• Endocrine disorder, fluid-electrolyte imbalance and infection
• Patients with malignancy and malignancy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy,
• Patients with delirium or depression
• Those with protective sensation loss (those with Semmes-Weinstein Monofilament Thickness 4.56 and above)
• patients with lower or upper extremity amputations at any level