Rehabilitation Methods for Unilateral Spatial Neglect in Stroke Patients

"The methods of traditional neuropsychological rehabilitation used in the classes included:~* attention tasks: proofreading tests, Schulte's Table;~* spatial thinking tasks: copying, drawing, tasks using Nikitin cubes;~* text reading tasks: texts from the Luria album. Each session began with oculomotor exercises. The correction programs differed by the type of feedback given to the patient in the course of correction.~Feedback in this type of intervention is in the form of prompts from a specialist."

"Rehabilitation in this group was carried out using an alternative communication device - oculograph C-Eye Pro (Assistech). The use of the device is characterized by a number of features: the presence of the eye movement biofeedback function (the patient and the specialist can see where the patient's gaze is directed by the movement of the red dot on the screen), the device needs to be pre-calibrated before the beginning of the session. To implement rehabilitation activities such tasks were used as:~* Visual field training;~* Word composing;~* Vowel insertion;~* Reading;~* etc. The peculiarity of correction on the apparatus of alternative communication - oculograph - was the use of visual biological communication, visual biological communication, also in case of wrong answer a sound signal followed."

"Rehabilitation of patients in the second experimental group was carried out on the RehaCom modular therapeutic system. The modular system includes a dedicated keyboard that has: numbers 1-9, 4 ok buttons, 4 arrow buttons, 2 pause/tip buttons and 2 exit/cancel buttons. Most of the tasks are performed using the keyboard, some of the tasks involved touch screen control. Tasks with stimulus images in the left screen space were used for rehabilitation activities:~* Saccades;~* Attention and Concentration;~* Planar Imagination;~* General Presentation and Reading;~* Shopping;~* Daily routine. A feature of the correction on the modular therapy system was the involvement of a motor component, playing a sound cue or visual cue when an error occurred."