THE USE OF VIRTUAL REALITY IN FROZEN SHOULDER MOBILIZATION

Abstract

Virtual reality is: "a way for humans to visualize, manipulate and interact with computers and extremely complex data" [Aukstakalnis & Blatner, 1992] (the way through which people can visualize, manipulate and interact with computers and complex data) more precisely it can be an advanced form of a human-computer, an interface that allows the user to interact in an environment generated by an almost real, natural computer, just like in airplane, train, car simulators in which pilots train for the development skills. The same environment can be created to develop and recover cognitive and functional abilities, bringing interactive scenarios designed to meet the needs of patients or create tasks similar to the real world. Adhesive capsulitis, also known as frozen shoulder, is a condition that causes a significant loss of both active and passive range of motion of the shoulder that occurs in the absence of preceding pathology.