Virtual Environments:

Virtual environments provide doctors with the means of almost unlimited exploratory behaviours and accurate measurement tools for evaluating progress in a rehabilitation process. Patients can visualize processes while standing still, amplifying one's balance awareness. They can experience specific situations or processes that in the user's perception require the need for correction of balance to reach a set target. They can experience every day life environments that need enhancing. Visualizations include standing on an escalator, navigating an airplane, catching a ball, walking a tight rope, shopping at a supermarket etc.