•This study was planned to investigate the effects of the Nintendo Wii virtual reality application on muscle strength and fall risk in individuals with AD.
The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of the virtual reality application on muscle strength and fall in individuals with Alzheimer' Dementia (AD).
Who can participate
Age range65 Years – 80 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* included volunteers between the ages of 65-80 with mild or moderate AD diagnosis,
* who did not have any difficulty or problems in communicating,
* who did not have any neurological diseases that disrupt balance and coordination such as a cerebrovascular event, Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and neurological disorder,
* who obtained a score of 18 - 24 points in the Mini-Mental State Test (MMST)
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients diagnosed with rapidly progressing dementia (infection, vascular, hematologic diseases),
* Those who could not be contacted during the follow-up period or who did not participate in the training session, those who experienced cardiac and cerebrovascular events, endocrine disorders, fluid-electrolyte imbalance and infection,
* Those with malignancy and those who received chemotherapy and radiotherapy that causes malignancy, delirium or depression and malignant sensory loss (those with the Semmes-Weinstein monofilament thickness of 4.56 and above),
* Those with a lower or upper extremity amputation at any level