Program

09:00

10:15

09:00 - 09:15

Word of Welcome

Professor Manuela Grecchi, Vice Dean of Politecnico di Milano, Responsible for Lecco Campus
Dr Marco Sacco, Head of CNR-STIIMA subsidiary in Lecco
Remco Hoogendijk, Nijmegen (NL)

09:15 - 10:15

Opening keynote - Clinical VR: A Brief Review of the Future!

10:15

10:25

10:15 - 10:25

Lecture - Catch a Rising Star programme

10:25

10:55

Break – coffee and exhibition

10:55

11:05

10:55 - 11:05

Lecture - Embedding new technology in practice

Gabriele Cipri, Khymeia Group, (IT)

11:05

12:15

Session 1: Rehab and XR – State of the Art

11:05 - 11:35

Lecture – Where are we scientifically and clinically

11:35 - 12:05

Abstract Presentations

1 – Augmented-reality home-based gamified rehabilitation with cueing to improve gait and balance in people with Parkinson’s disease: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial

Eva M. Hoogendoorn (NL)

2 – The use of a Virtual Reality headset intervention as an adjunct to rehabilitation following major trauma: A quality improvement project

Bethany Kenny (UK)

3 – Early mobilization at ICU with XR

Richard Evering (NL)

12:05 - 12:15

Project in the Spotlight

4 – An Augmented Reality tool for obstacle avoidance rehabilitation paradigms

Shachar Maidenbaum (IL)

12:15

12:35

1 Minute Wonders

View the Poster Presentations here

12:35

13:35

Lunch – exhibition & posters

15:00

15:30

Break – refreshments and exhibition

15:30

16:35

Session 2: Pain

15:30 - 15:55

Lecture – Virtual Reality, Real Value: Unlocking the power of VR in chronic pain

15:55 - 16:25

Abstract Presentations

5 – Agency and embodiment matter: factors impacting analgesic effects of a virtual walking intervention for spinal cord injury-related pain

Daniel Van Der Laan (AU)

6 – Acceptability of using an immersive Virtual Reality platform for Pain Education: perspectives of patients in a randomised clinical trial

Hannah Kennedy (AU)

7 – Gaming, guarding, and greenscreens. Participant perceptions and factors associated with response to a virtual reality intervention for low back pain

Peter Window (AU)

16:25 - 16:35

Project in the Spotlight

Developing clinical reasoning skills in pain management: The VR-Pain project

Brona Fullen (IE)

16:35

17:15

16:35 - 17:05

Keynote - Eye tracking as a functional biomarker: from real world to VR

17:05 - 17:15

Q & A