IMPLEMENTATION AND EXAMINATION OF VESTİBULAR REHABILITATION IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVİRONMENT BY GAMIFICATION IN PATIENTS WITH BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO

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Açıksöz Ş. Ö., Öz I., Yay H. H.

International Congress on Physiotechnotherapy, Alexandroupoli, Yunanistan, 3 - 05 Ekim 2024, ss.16

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Alexandroupoli
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Yunanistan
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.16
  • Lokman Hekim Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Purpose: Balance exercises are recommended because dizziness is often observed in Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). Home-based programs create positive results, but continuity cannot be achieved due to lack of motivation. Although technological applications can be used to increase motivation, there is no current application for BPPV patients. From here, it is aimed to enable BPPV patients to quickly and easily return to their daily activities by turning vestibular exercises into an application in a gamified, augmented reality (AR) environment that can be easily accessed from mobile devices.

Methods: Software development will be done for AR-based application for residual dizziness in BPPV patients. After this, patients between the ages of 18-75, who have scored at least 18 points in the Standardized Mini Mental Test and who come to the Başkent Hospital Audiology Clinic and are diagnosed with BPPV will be divided into 3 groups: AR application, traditional method, no exercise. Daily Living Activities Scale in Vestibular Disorders, Short Form-12 Quality of Life Scale and Dizziness Handicap Inventory will be applied, and time-dependent changes within the group and differences between the groups will be examined. Patients will be included in the study considering the conditions that may affect the test results and the characteristics that will disrupt the homogeneity of the group.

Results: In the study, the exercises to be given to patients are currently being determined, gamified and scenario-ized to be converted into an AR application. In the future, trials will be conducted on healthy individuals.

Conclusions: The study will be an example for the world literature as it is the first AR-based mobile application for patients with BPPV and will also be a step towards increasing and developing Turkish applications.

Keywords: Vestibular Rehabilitation, Gamification, Augmented Reality, Tele-Audiology, Tele-Rehabilitation