Virtual system for lower limbs strengthening in children

We present a virtual system for strengthening of lower limbs focused on children with cerebral palsy, in the implementation we use sensors that allow to obtain the angular velocity and rotation of direction of the bicycle, for the design of the virtual environment we use the Labview software, in which two scenarios of different difficulty are created to visualize in virtual form the trajectory that makes a bicycle, the results indicate the proper performance of the virtual environments as well as the performed test, indicates that system has acceptance to be used in rehabilitation.

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