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.
VR4REHAB Projects
The project has been developed into 8 different teams, each one is working on a specific Virtual and Augmented Reality application.
Discover them here:
Team
The VR4REHAB team consists of a range of experts across Europe.

Remco Hoogendijk
Lead Partner

Marco Sacco
Partner

Kristina MĂĽller
Partner

Denis Martin
Partner

Dido Green
Partner

Laurent Grisoni
Partner

Rene Luigies
Partner

Victor Haze
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

Beatrice Palacco
Head of Communication