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Virtual reality is being used to help patients recovery by incorporating virtual reality-based physical and cognitive exercise games into stroke rehabilitation programs.

Patients can use this technology to complete customized interactive exercises in a virtual reality environment. The exercises are designed to stimulate the specific area of the brain damaged by the stroke.[RDmag]

This kind of exercises bring an extra motivation to complete the rehabilitation exercises and to do them for a longer period of time.