[AMP-L] Virtual reality Games Make Rehab Fun for Amputee Patients [Video]

[Wayne Renardson]

via Hamilton Health Sciences Canada:

Lyndyl Smith isn´t the sporty type.

"My favourite pastimes are reading, calligraphy and spending time with 
friends," says the 21-year-old university student and Hamilton Health 
Sciences (HHS) patient.  

Yet just a few weeks after undergoing an amputation below her right 
knee, Smith found herself blocking soccer balls and snowboarding down 
a mountain as part of the amputee rehabilitation program at HHS´ 
Regional Rehabilitation Centre.  

    "Virtual reality made rehab really fun."

Snowboarding, soccer, and even parachuting are among the virtual 
reality (VR) activities offered to patients as part of a six-week amputee 
rehabilitation program. Patients visit the hospital for daily programming 
that includes physiotherapy, occupational therapy and counselling 
services, and helps patients who recently had a limb amputated adjust to  
their new normal.

The rest of the story, with photos & video, here:

https://tinyurl.com/ya8cpcd6

Wayne R.