Patient motivation and rewarding to maximize outcome: A sensory perspective

Abstract

Motivation is an important topic in rehabilitation and frequently used as a determinant of rehabilitation outcome. Several factors can influence patient motivation and so improve exercise adherence. This paper presents some techniques to improve patient motivation and maximize outcome during technology-assisted rehabilitation. In particular, we present some examples of multimodal augmented feedback. This approach provide feedback on the performance during training through the stimulation of different sensory channels such as vision, audition, proprioception etc. It is believed to have several advantages over unimodal feedback and it can promote the patient’s motivation and maximize outcome.