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ReviewJournal of exercise rehabilitation2019

Virtual rehabilitation of upper extremity function and independence for stoke: a meta-analysis.

Sinae Ahn, Sujin Hwang

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Review in Journal of exercise rehabilitation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Sinae AhnDepartment of Occupational Therapy, Cheongju University, Cheonju, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-8497-6331
Sujin HwangDepartment of Physical Therapy, Division of Health Science, Baekseok University, Cheonan, Korea.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to conduct a systematic literature review with a meta-analysis to investigate whether virtual reality (VR) approaches have beneficial effects on the upper extremity function and independent activities of stroke survivors. Experimental studies published between 2007 and 2017 were searched from two databases (EBSCOhost and PubMed). This study reviewed abstracts and assessed full articles to obtain evidence on qualitative studies. For the meta-analysis, the studies that estimated the standardized mean between the two groups analyzed the statistical values necessary for calculating the effect size. The present study also evaluated the statistical heterogeneity. In total, 34 studies with 1,604 participants were included, and the number of participants in each study ranged from 10 to 376. Nine studies were assessed to evaluate the quantitative statistical analysis for 698 patients with hemiparetic stroke. The results of the meta-analysis were as follows: The overall effect size was moderate (0.41,

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IndependenceMeta-analysisStrokeUpper extremityVirtual reality

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PMID31316927
PMCPMC6614763

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