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Filter by:Functional movement disorders (FMD) involve unusual movements or walking difficulties that are not caused by a specific brain or nerve injury. Passive thoughts are those that occur spontaneously, and often repetitively. They are different from active thoughts, which are purposeful and intentional, such as those required for tasks like making a cup of coffee or catching a bus. This concept can be paralleled with body movements. Active movements are voluntary and purposeful, while involuntary movements can be seen as passive, arising spontaneously and not under voluntary control. The study aims to explore whether individuals with functional movement disorders experience a higher frequency of passive thoughts compared to normal healthy individuals. A structured questionnaire focused on passive thoughts will be administered to patients with functional movement disorders and to healthy controls.
This study investigates the effect of virtual reality (VR) motor tasks on functional movement disorders.
Functional motor disorders (FMDs) are a broad spectrum of functional neurological disorders, including abnormal gait/balance disorders. Patients experience high degrees of disability and distress, equivalent to those suffering from degenerative neurological diseases. Rehabilitation is essential in their management. However, the current systems of rehabilitation delivery face two main challenges. Patients are not receiving the amount and kind of evidence-based rehabilitation they need due to the lack of rehabilitation professionals and experts in the field. The rehabilitation setting is not adequate for the long-term management and monitoring of these patients. Digital medicine is a new field that means "using digital tools to upgrade the practice of medicine to one that is high-definition and far more individualized." It can upgrade rehabilitation practice, addressing the existing critical components towards marked efficiency and productivity. Digital telerehabilitation will increase the accessibility to personalized rehabilitation by expert professionals placing tools to monitor the patient's health by themselves. The increasing development and availability of portable and wearable technologies are rapidly expanding the field of technology-based objective measures (TOMs) in neurological disorders. However, substantial challenges remain in (1) recognizing TOMs relevant to patients and clinicians to provide accurate, objective, and real-time assessment of gait and activity in a real-world setting and (2) their integration into telerehabilitation systems towards a digital rehabilitation transition. This feasibility study provides preliminary data on the integration of a real-time gait and activity analysis by wearable devices in the real world with a digital platform to improve the diagnosis, monitoring, and rehabilitation of patients with FMDs.