Minor help, too expensive and not enough repetitions available in the time periods therapists are allowed with patients.
52 posts on video games here so your stroke hospital can compare them to see which has the best efficacy.
http://www.nbc29.com/story/35256521/video-game-helping-patients-rehab-from-stroke
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -
A type of video game could be the new way patients rehab from strokes.
Albemarle
County based Barron Associates developed the Saebo V-R, it'll be
distributed starting this summer to clinics nationwide. The starting
cost is nearly $10,000.
Occupational therapists think it could be
the key to getting patients back to normal, and to having a little fun
while they do it.
"There's a lot of new technology coming out
influencing the way we do rehabilitation," said Allison Ellington, an
occupational therapist.
This could be the new way to come back from a difficult diagnosis, and now with FDA approval experts are rolling out Saebo V-R.
The virtual reality system was designed in central Virginia, and has patients moving their arms.
"We
developed our own algorithms to do the motion tracking," said Eileen
Krepkovich, a research scientist with Barrons Associates. "I think it's a
great tool for the clients because it uses real life activities, it
lets them practice things that they're inherently motivated to get back
to doing."
Those activities might include laundry or gardening.
Ellington
has her occupational therapy students at Mary Baldwin University's
Murphy Deming School studying the system as a tool for working with
patients.
And with her own patients at UVA-Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital she's seeing success.
"We
have measured patient satisfaction with this system, which has been
really high, but most exciting, we were able to show a significant
improvement in upper-extremity function after just eight weeks of using
the system three times a week," said Ellington.
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