The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation service provides care for individuals experiencing disability secondary to medical or traumatic conditions, regardless of their underlying cause or the patient’s age. This includes the rehabilitation of motor, cognitive, bladder and bowel, and cardiorespiratory functions, with the aim of restoring each patient’s maximum functional capacity.

To support rehabilitation and occupational therapy, professionals within the service use augmented reality (AR) devices that enable patients to engage in immersive therapy sessions conducted within the facility’s gymnasium. This approach has been associated with improved treatment adherence and effectiveness.

Specifically, AR glasses are used in conjunction with both commercially available software and software specifically designed by doctors from the service. The type of videos to be displayed is prescribed by the rehabilitation doctors and physiotherapists and occupational therapists place the glasses with the prescribed videos on the patients and help them during the session. The tailored videos are created by the doctors themselves using different immersive reality software applications.