Next Generation Design for an In-Home Video Game Enhanced Physical Therapy System for Pediatric Patients with Cerebral Palsy
Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In general, school aged and older children with impaired motor function due to cerebral palsy do not receive regular clinical therapy and rely on a prescribed in-home physical therapy regiments for rehabilitation (Bryanton, 2006). Often these patients are not compliant with conventionally prescribed in-home therapy regiments because the exercises are perceived as “meaningless and uninteresting” (Bryanton, 2006). One of the advantages of enhancing physical therapy with video game technology is the high patient motivation to participate such therapy sessions as compared to conventional therapy sessions (Huber, 2008).
Author: Meghan E. Huber
Institution: The University of Texas at Dallas
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1581667050