A Virtual Muscle Machine for Kids with Disabilities
From: American Friends of Tel Aviv University - 04/27/2010

Tel Aviv University's Dido Green has developed a virtual method for analyzing
movement patterns in children to more effectively treat those with
debilitating motor disorders. Green is using a virtual tabletop, called the
Elements System, to help children with disabilities move and to provide
home-based treatments using virtual reality tools. Combining
three-dimensional exercises with two-dimensional graphical movement games has
produced successful treatments and enthusiastic patients, Green says. "The
movement-oriented games allowed them to 'make music' and reach targets in
ways that are normally neither comfortable nor fun in the therapeutic
setting," she says. Children with partial paralysis and motor dysfunction may
be helped by giving them a new interface to explore. "It could bring daily
treatments into the home and provides therapists with a complete solution to
track and analyze improvements or setbacks in the most accurate way to date,"
Green says. Future versions of the system will provide remote rehabilitation
options. 

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A Magical Way to Move Kids
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11871