VR makes physical activity and cognitive stimulus meaningful and motivating

“SYNCSENSE VR solution we use especially for our long-term hospitalized cardiac patients as a supplement to traditional training. It is particularly beneficial for the patients in the time period when the therapists are not present. It has turned out that many of the patients also find motivation in the individual VR training videos for life after the hospital stay.

There are continuously more and greater demands on the staff’s IT skills. SYNCSENSE VR solution is really simple and easy to use – it is something everyone can figure out, including the patients themselves.”

“We are so ready to join the journey with VR headsets for patients admitted to Nyk. F. Hospital. Simple and easy operation, many patients with different diagnoses can benefit from that form of combined training and relaxation. Increase motivation for movement and for several increase quality of life. Patients can, among other things, watch local VR films from many of the places they remember and have lovely memories from.”

“I had not worked with the VR solution for many months before one success experience followed the other. The experience I would like to share that touched me a lot is from a citizen who earlier in his life had been very active, but who has now developed muscle wasting in the legs, which bothers him a lot. The citizen has expressed that he does not wish to live longer because of his reduced functional level. He used to cycle on his tricycle around Langelinie and Amalienborg. And since there is a VR film from this place, I thought he was an obvious choice to try the VR headset. And it was a great success! He smiled and laughed throughout the entire bike ride and was very positive about the whole experience. Along the way he said that he no longer feels ill. Afterwards he gladly and actively participated in the community for coffee and cake and was incredibly motivated to start and come regularly to the centre to be able to VR-cycle this route, which he had missed so much.

This experience underlined for me how important it is to look for tools that provide new opportunities to improve the quality of life for our citizens and how even a short 15-minute VR film can evoke such a great feeling of joy and meaning in life.”

"We in Lolland Municipality are happy about the simple and straightforward way the VR headsets from SYNCSENSE work and, of course, also the fact that the solution contributes to free hands among the healthcare professionals, increased movement among our elderly citizens, and a higher quality of life in the present with the help of welfare technology.”

“We have long worked with VR and think that the solution from SYNCSENSE meets our needs and therefore fits well into our work with physical training and mobility. The content is adapted to our target group and we see that the VR experience motivates increased training effort and facilitates conversations among the admitted citizens. We use VR directly as part of the physical training and the easy operation makes it possible for us also to offer it as an activity offering in the form of self-training or with help from volunteers in the outer hours of the day.”

“VR training helps to improve living conditions and the good elderly life. The VR training gives the residents an active and entertaining breathing space – and it motivates them to train again and again.

The VR solution is a supplementary tool that both our care staff and therapists use. We have recently initiated an implementation strategy that seeks to engage and involve the relatives, so they feel like helping and contributing to activating our residents to an even higher degree than we are ourselves able to.”

“I prefer the VR solution from SYNCSENSE, as it is incredibly simple and easy to operate. The VR solution motivates the residents to more physical and cognitive training and also gives me a tool for effective sensory integration. Among other things, it can reduce outwardly reactive behavior, regulate the arousal level and has a positive effect on the residents’ opting for social activities.

We therefore experience that the VR solution contributes to increasing quality of life and makes many of our residents more self-reliant. We generally experience that our bikes are used more with VR – there is even a queue for the bikes sometimes because the residents request VR cycling.

In our study we saw that all 3 residents increased watts, revolutions and the time for which they cycled. One resident went from cycling 15 minutes to 30 minutes while another went from cycling 1 km to 8 km. A third resident and wheelchair user got the feeling of being able to “walk” again. The potential for this technology is therefore enormous within training and neurorehabilitation.”

“The VR solution is very easy to operate. It is designed so accessibly that I myself figured out how to use the VR headset when I took it out of the box the first time – without being able to get through the instructions.

One of our patients with brain injury, whom we had difficulty motivating to train much more than 7 minutes on the NuStep, trained a total of 17 minutes with the VR headset on. We had to stop him in the end so he wouldn’t become overtired. The fact that he could follow along virtually on a trip out into nature and was stimulated by the VR headset had a good effect.

The VR solution is a new intervention that has the potential to pioneer rehabilitation of brain injury and other neurological disorders.”

“VR as a tool for sensory integration, relationships and quality of life.

As a psychomotor therapist, I work with body, senses and relationships. Recently, I experienced how VR can not only create visual experiences, but also open up memories, emotions and life story. A simple VR church service turned into a moment of presence, singing and conversation about the meaning of life.

Technology cannot replace human contact – but it can create new spaces for quality of life.”

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