METHOD FOR REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER USING VIRTUAL REALITY AND BIOLOGICAL FEEDBACK Russian patent published in 2025 - IPC A61H1/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to paediatrics, neurology, and can be used for rehabilitation of children with autism spectrum disorder. Diagnostic examination of children is carried out using an adapted version of the Veksler technique and modules C, D, E of the GMFM-88 scale. According to the results of the diagnostic examination, the children are divided into two groups. First group includes children who, when examined on the GMFM-88 scale, scored 30 to 55 points in modules C, D, E. Second group includes children who, when examined by GMFM-88 scale, scored total of 60 to 70 points in modules C, D, E. At the same time children from both groups have problems with movements. Rehabilitation is carried out by performing exercises with the help of the ReviMotion hardware complex. For the first group, the exercises are carried out with the use of a game with the skill of raising legs and kicking a virtual ball, the skill of stepping over an obstacle with high hip lifting, and the skill of jumping on two legs. In the second group, at the first lessons, the children do exercises on the simulator independently. Then, combinations of movements are performed: games with the skill of coordinating movements with maintaining balance during simultaneous lifting of two arms above the head in combination with a step with high hip lifting, skill of simultaneous lifting of two arms above the head, skill of grasping the opposite shoulder alternately to the right and to the left. Rehabilitation course includes 15 sessions using the ReviMotion hardware complex. Load is dosed in time, starting from 5–10 minutes at the beginning of the treatment course and gradually increasing to 15 minutes for the first group and up to 20–25 minutes for the second group.

EFFECT: method enables to objectify and correct the correctness of motor acts.

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