Patients at Seacroft Hospital in Leeds England are a sad lot. Not only do they require a lower prosthetic limb, but they also have to play Wii Fit to get used to it. Physiotherapists at Leeds have instituted a revolutionary new plan – get patients to play Wii Fit until they bugger off and sap someone else’s time.
The act of buggering off is difficult if the patient doesn't learn how to balance first. Seacroft’s senior physiotherapist Lynn Hirst is using the popular game to give patients a visual indication of how poor their weight distribution is with their fake limb. Improvement is plotted in front of the patients' eyes, possibly lifting spirits and pushing them to balance harder.
Hirst also allows her patients to play the mini-games, a terribly sweet retreat from realizing that a leg has gone missing. One patient found the therapy to be “marvelous." He was probably depressed when he said that.
[via NintendoWorldReport]
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6:00 PM on 01.06.2009
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>dollrapist
Okay.
I don't see Carnival Games helping people in hospitals, though.
It doesn't surprise me at all that it's being used to rehabilitate people. That board is really sensitive to shifts in balance.
Carnival Games, however, I couldn't sell to the used game market quickly enough.
With a few exceptions (Hi, Jonathan!), DToid's authors feel that anything positive for the Wii goes against their karma to the point the a positive Wii article gets some of them physically ill. You know, it's that whole "graphics > gameplay" mentality that supposedly is the benchmark for determining if you're a real gamer or not.
Sorry the wii isn't OMG HARDCORE GAEMS. But at least it can a fun different way of doing boring and repetitious rehab.
When did d-toid turned into a bunch of Summa clones.
I understand they didn't play games before the Playstation but look it up, games survived as long as they did because they were meant for everyone.
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