Nintendo Wii Helps Stroke Victims with Physiotherapy
From: Wireless Design & Development - 12/12/2014

Stroke survivors can have "significant" improvement in arm movements after
using the Nintendo Wii as physiotherapy according to researchers.

The popular computer remote could be customized to offer bespoke
physiotherapy for stroke survivors in their own home according to research
led by Lancaster University (UK).

A preliminary study showed that playing specially adapted Wii games improved
the arm movements of stroke patients, with a threefold increase in their
ability to pick up and put pegs in holes.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2014/12/nintendo-wii-helps-stroke-victims-physiotherapy

Links:
Emmanuel Tsekleves
http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/emmanuel-tsekleves(33bc2fe7-b3bb-432d-90db-f5a863d64847).html

Development and preliminary evaluation of a novel low cost VR-based upper limb stroke rehabilitation platform using Wii technology
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/17483107.2014.981874