Virtual reality and physiotherapy exercise for the recovery of balance in adults with multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is a complex, autoimmune, demyelinating disease. In the sick person there are symptoms that limit the functional state, 75% present loss of balance. Professionals from different specialties have made contributions on the etiopathogenesis, the pathophysiological mechanisms that generate it, but the results still do not offer probative evidence for the application of an effective treatment, it only manages to improve the symptoms, but not stop them over time. From the therapeutic point of view, there are statistics that prove the action of rehabilitative exercises in improving balance. Several studies refer to the use of virtual reality in this effort. The objective of the present investigation was to describe the benefits of the use of virtual reality and physical therapy exercise in the recovery of balance in patients with multiple sclerosis. For its compliance, a bibliographic review was carried out in which 19 studies related to the research objective published in the period 2017-2023 in the databases: Scielo, Redalyc and PubMed were included. In addition, the academic Google search engine. Graduate and postgraduate theses, articles and other documents related to the benefits of virtual reality in the recovery of balance were included. It was a basic, non-experimental, descriptive and cross-sectional investigation. Virtual reality exercises stimulate neuroplasticity mechanisms that bring benefits to patients with multiple sclerosis.