Touch Me, Heal Me: Haptic Solutions for Rehabilitation
From: Medical Design Briefs - 01/2011 - page 4
By: David Chen

The popularity of games with buzzing joysticks and consumer electronic
devices with touchpads has expanded awareness of the role that haptic
(touch-enabled) interfaces can play in computing applications. Yet there are
other kinds of haptics that are enabling sophisticated computer-based
rehabilitation solutions — “serious games” that are examples of haptics’
potential to aid clinical therapy. 

The Curictus Virtual Rehabilitation System (VRS) uses haptics to stimulate
patients’ awareness of their own resources and difficulties, as well as their
interests and creativity. 

Clinical experience has confirmed that haptically enabled virtual reality
games can become a capable adjunct to personal sessions with a clinician. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/8938/341

Links:
SensAble Technologies
http://www.sensable.com/

Curictus Virtual Rehabilitation System
http://www.curictus.com/