Abstract for presentation at 6th World Congress on Brain Injury

Purpose: rehabilitation of gait is one of the goals in of long term rehabilitation in patient with brain injury. This study is aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Neurobird Feedback System’ Accelerating Program in shorting the time of rehabilitation of gait in one subject with severe balance disorders.
Subject: a patient of thirty years old; she suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was nineteen years old. The diagnosis was contusion and haemorrhage in the frontal right lobe with hemorrhagic focus in the left internal capsule. The patient suffers severe imbalance during walk.
Method: in the Neurobird Feedback System’ Accelerating Program; visual, auditory, and somatosensory feedback techniques are applied. The material used was a computer biofeedback Neurobird´System which operated on an interactivity computer-communication static platform that also allowed her to have a special image of her body.
Method Design: a single case and quantitative experimental design was applied (reversal/withdrawal ABA design) consisting of a no-intervention baseline phase and an intervention phase: (A) non-intervention (B) intervention (A) non-intervention. There was one month intervention in each phase, making a total of 15 sessions in each phase. Finally, the relationship between the three phases was analysed.
Results: the analysis of quantitative data give evidence that after applying the Neurobird Feedback System’ Accelerating Gait Program, the patient diminished 18 times the number of imbalances in a 40 meter walking during 15 minutes.
Conclusion: the patient with severe balance disorders showed improvements in shorting the time of rehabilitation of gait after a special computerized biofeedback accelerating program, further replication studies should be conduced in the future and more subjects should be recruited with the aim of improve the generalization of the results.