Virtual Reality and Exercise Could Be a Motivator to Get Moving
From: Physical Therapy Products - 10/19/2016

In conjunction with physical therapists at a nursing home, a researcher from
Aalborg University in Denmark conducted a study in which the home’s elderly
residents combined exercise with virtual reality.

"All too often the elderly end up sitting and looking at a wall or staring
passively into a television. As a rule they're usually not particularly
motivated to exercise, partly because getting moving again after a long
period of inactivity can cause pain, and partly because it's not particularly
interesting to sit and look at a wall while you bike," says Jon Ram
Bruun-Pedersen of the Multisensory Experience Lab in the Department of
Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University Copenhagen,
in a media release from Aalborg University.

As his PhD project, Pederson designed the study, suggesting that virtual
reality could be just the thing to motivate seniors to ride exercise bikes.

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http://www.ptproductsonline.com/2016/10/study-combines-virtual-reality-exercise-motivation-get-moving

Links:
Jon Ram Bruun-Pedersen
http://personprofil.aau.dk/115972
http://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/jon-ram-bruunpedersen(c22daa03-c3ec-4e8d-98a1-4ce8c60842ba).html

Motivating Elderly to Exercise - Recreational Virtual Environment for Indoor
  Biking
http://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/motivating-elderly-to-exercise--recreational-virtual-environment-for-indoor-biking(8ed46c38-8cf6-4988-9d08-7a3bac4f7f89).html