Iran Medical Council Journal of Iranian Medical Council 2645-338X 7 1 2024 01 01 Virtual Reality for Balance After Stroke: A Narrative Review 5 27 184268 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/jimc.v7i1.14197 EN Fereshteh Poursaeed Northeastern University Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy Program College of Professional Studies, 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115, United States of America 0000-0002-9423-7564 Noureddin Nokhostin Ansari Department of Physiotherapy, School of Rehabilitation Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Research Center for War-Affected People, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 0000-0003-2742-2273 Journal Article 2023 05 22 <strong>Background: </strong>The present study was conducted to provide an up-to-date understanding of clinical applications in balance capability, as well as delivering a review of pieces of literature on Virtual Reality (VR) on balance control in stroke survivors.<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> Databases including PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Pedro were searched for published papers from 2010 to 2020 with the terms “Game-based rehabilitation”, “balance training”, “virtual reality”, “stroke”, “neurorehabilitation”, and “virtual environment”. We evaluated the effect of VR on balance improvement after a stroke.<br /><strong>Results: </strong>33 articles describing results following the use of VR on balance in patients with stroke that met our inclusion criteria were found. Among these studies, two studies described the results in acute, eight in subacute, twenty-two in chronic stroke patients, and one study included both chronic and subacute stroke patients. The results indicated that balance can be improved with VR.<br /><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The results of this study strengthen the idea that VR training has the potential to become an effective adjacent to routine rehabilitation treatments for improving balance status post-stroke. However, conducting a randomized control trial that incorporates all three stroke phases with an appropriate study setting is necessary to achieve an integrated clinical protocol.<br /><br /> https://www.jimc.ir/article_184268_790b5e7b650f7058fc7bef444b9dbb24.pdf