Origin
VR4REHAB was born in 2017 as an Interreg NWE project focused on developing VR based rehabilitation tools in co-creation with seven European partners.
Virtual Reality (VR) is booming worldwide, but in the healthcare sector, specifically rehabilitation, VR is in its early days. There are not yet tools specifically designed to provide an environment that enables non-experts and their therapists to safely extend rehabilitation outside the clinics. VR4REHAB was created to meet this need, and to optimizing rehabilitation protocols for patients and their therapists. Researchers and clinical personnel of VR4REHAB work together to provide the patients with challenging VR interventions that can help to optimize rehabilitation protocols, accelerate recovery, promote adherence to treatment, and to facilitate reintegration into daily life.
Goal
VR4REHAB is an Open Innovation Network that believes in the power of virtual reality for rehabilitation. Our goal is to stimulate the creation of VR based rehabilitation tools by bringing together relevant stakeholders and exchange knowledge.
We specifically focus on enabling the co-creation of Virtual Reality-based rehabilitation tools. The use of VR in rehabilitation offers many advantages for patients and therapists. It makes therapy not only more fun, and therefore increases patient engagement, but is easy to monitor and adjust to individual needs. Furthermore, it reduces pain, is cost-effective, and can be done in the comfort of the patients’ home.
Team
The VR4REHAB team consists of a range of experts across Europe.
Remco Hoogendijk
Lead Partner
Marco Sacco
Partner
Kristina Müller
Partner
Denis Martin
Partner
Dido Green
Partner
Laurent Grisoni
Partner
Rene Luigies
Partner
Wil Philipsen
Partner
Noël Keijsers
Partner
Koen van den Hurk
Partner
Joseph McVeigh
Partner
Nico de Fauw
Partner
Leen Stulens
Partner
Anouk den Ambtman
Project Leader
Silvia de Bruin
Project Leader
Mónica González
Head of Communication
