USP San Jaime hospital brings augmented reality to neurorehabilitation

The USP San Jaime private hospital in Torrevieja has inaugurated the first neurorehabilitation unit in the Valencian Community and a pioneer in Spain for the use of augmented reality for this type of treatment. The unit offers comprehensive and personalized treatment for patients with neurodegenerative pathologies, as well as training support also for family members.

The USP San Jaime hospital has inaugurated the new Neurorehabilitation Unit, pioneer in Spain in the use of augmented reality for the treatment of neurological injuries. The Unit, unique in the Valencian Community, It is intended for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative pathologies and offers comprehensive and personalized treatment to patients.. Thanks to the innovative technology of augmented reality, The Neurorehabilitation Unit of USP San Jaime offers training support to both patients and their families and caregivers so that they better understand neurological pathology.

The manager of USP San Jaime, Roberto Ferrándiz, has expressed his satisfaction with the launch of this new Unit, “a pioneering service with the best facilities, top-level technology that allows the Valencian Community, the province of Alicante and the city of Torrevieja count, from this moment, with one of the only Neurorehabilitation services in Spain and, above it, with the first in the entire country that offers training support for families and patients with augmented reality technology, in addition to virtual rehabilitation through Biotrak and multi-touch screen”, has stated.

Augmented reality has educational purposes for patients, and also for family members, since understanding is much faster and intuitive. The treatment offered by the USP San Jaime Neurorehabilitation Unit is completed with virtual reality, a training based on simulation exercises that has many advantages over regular rehabilitation: it's safer, since these are exercises in virtual environments; is more adaptable, because it is the system that adapts to the patient, and not the other way around; offers greater motivation to the patient, since the exercises have a playful background; and provide greater objectivity to the treatment, since they provide objective data that allows assessing the patient's condition and its evolution over time.

This virtual rehabilitation is carried out through Biotrak, a technological solution that consists of a series of exercises designed by specialists that allow improvement and detailed control of the patient's evolution.

The facilities of the Neurorehabilitation Service are first class and are equipped with one of the only two ICUs of this type that exist in Spain., an occupational therapy classroom that reproduces a home, a virtual reality and multi-touch room; entry facilities with adapted rooms; therapeutic bath and gym, and a classroom with a balance assessment platform.