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Background: The new human coronavirus that leads to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) has spread rapidly around the world and has a high degree of lethality. In more severe cases, patients remain hospitalized for several days under treatment of the health team. Thus, it is important to develop and use technologies with the aim to strengthen conventional therapy by encouraging movement, physical activity, and improving cardiorespiratory fitness for patients. In this sense, therapies for exposure to virtual reality (VR) are promising and have been shown to be an adequate and equivalent alternative to conventional exercise programs. Aim: This is a study protocol with the aim of comparing the conventional physical therapy intervention with the use of a non-immersive VR software during COVID-19 hospitalization. Methods: Fifty patients hospitalized with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 will be divided in two groups under physiotherapy treatment using conventional or VR intervention: Group A: participants with COVID-19 will start the first day of the protocol with VR tasks in the morning and then in the second period, in the afternoon, will perform the conventional exercises (n = 25) and Group B: participants with COVID-19 will start the first day with conventional exercises in the morning and in the second period, in the afternoon, will perform activity with VR (n = 25). All participants will be evaluated with different motor and physiologic scales before and after the treatment to measure improvements. Conclusion: Considering the importance of benefits from physical activity during hospitalization, VR software shows promise as a potential mechanism for improving physical activity. The results of this study may provide new insights into hospital rehabilitation. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT04537858. Registered on 01 September 2020.
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INTRODUÇÃO: O Transtorno de Asperger (TA) é considerado um distúrbio do neurodesenvolvimento, caracterizado por deficiências sociais, dificuldade de comunicação, padrões restritos e repetitivos de comportamento. OBJETIVO: Comparar o desempenho motor na realização de tarefa computacional com base na relação velocidade e precisão, entre pessoas com desenvolvimento típico e com TA, por meio do tempo de movimento. MÉTODOS: Participaram deste estudo oito meninos com diagnóstico de TA e oito meninos com desenvolvimento típico, pareados por idade e sexo, para compor o grupo controle. A tarefa que utilizamos avalia a relação velocidade e precisão de movimento, que consiste na realização de movimentos manuais direcionados a um alvo, em três índices de dificuldade (ID). O tempo de movimento foi obtido por meio da divisão entre segundos pré-estabelecidos para a tarefa (10) e o número de toques realizados no alvo. A ANOVA para medidas repetidas foi utilizada para a comparação entre os ID e entre os grupos. RESULTADOS: Observamos que o tempo de movimento aumentou conforme o progresso dos ID. CONCLUSÃO: Os indivíduos com TA apresentaram um tempo de movimento significativamente maior quando comparados ao grupo controle, em todos os ID. Supõe-se que há dificuldades inerentes à doença, e condições motoras dos indivíduos com TA limitam o desempenho durante a tarefa.
INTRODUCTION: Asperger's Disorder (AD) is one of the neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by social impairments, difficulty in communication and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. OBJECTIVE: To compare the motor performance in performing computational tasks with base on the relation speed and accuracy among people with typical development and AD, through the time of movement. METHODS: The study included eight boys diagnosed with AD and eight children with typical development, matched for age and sex, to compose the control group. The task used to assesses the relative movement speed and accuracy, consisting in making hand movements directed at a target in three levels of difficulty (DI). Movement time was obtained by dividing the seconds to preestablished between the task (10) and the number of rings made on the target. ANOVA for repeated measures was used to compare the DI and between groups. RESULTS: We observed that the movement time increased with the progress of DI. CONCLUSION: Individuals with AD had a significantly increased movement time compared to the control group in all DI. It is assumed that the difficulties are inherent in motor pathology and conditions of the patients with MT limit performance during task.