Virtual Muscle Machine Gets Disabled Children Moving
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Tel Aviv University are developing a new "virtual" method to analyze movement patterns in children ― and more effectively treat those with debilitating motor disorders. The team is using a "virtual tabletop" called the ELEMENTS SYSTEM, developed by scientists at Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, to "move" kids with disabilities and provide home-based treatments using virtual reality tools. "I've been working with children with movement disorders for the last 20 years," says Dr. Dido Green of Tel Aviv University. "By the time I meet these children, they're sick of us. They've been 'over-therapied,' and it's difficult to get them to practice their exercises and prescribed treatment regimes." read more