A Kinect-Based System for Balance Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients

Kinect research on this has been out there for years. Why haven't our professionals put this into a publicly available stroke protocol and stop researching the same stuff over and over again?
I have 14 posts on this back to June 2012.  FDA approved the device for stroke in May 2014.

My system would be even simpler, progressively give them more and more alcohol sitting at a high bar stool and have them walk to the bathroom. Quite a challenge and it would speed up your recovery a lot. Secondary positives would be consumption of resveratrol if you use red wine.  Win, win.
http://search.ieice.org/bin/summary.php?id=e99-d_4_1032

Chung-Liang LAI   Chien-Ming TSENG   D. ERDENETSOGT   Tzu-Kuan LIAO   Ya-Ling HUANG   Yung-Fu CHEN  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E99-D   No.4   pp.1032-1037
Publication Date: 2016/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cyberworlds)
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Keyword: 
stroke ,  virtual reality ,  e-rehabilitation ,  balance shift , 

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Summary: 
A low-cost prototypic Kinect-based rehabilitation system was developed for recovering balance capability of stroke patients. A total of 16 stroke patients were recruited to participate in the study. After excluding 3 patients who failed to finish all of the rehabilitation sessions, only the data of 13 patients were analyzed. The results exhibited a significant effect in recovering balance function of the patients after 3 weeks of balance training. Additionally, the questionnaire survey revealed that the designed system was perceived as effective and easy in operation.