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You’ve just been injured, and you’re on the way home from an hour of physical therapy. The last thing you want to do on your own is confusing exercises that take too long to show results. TED Fellow Cosmin Mihaiu demos a fun, cheap solution that turns boring physical therapy exercises into a video game with crystal-clear instructions.
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I'm sure that insurance companies will NEVER use this data to deny coverage. Gee Mr Mihaiu you only made the bumblebee jump 23 times. In order for us to cover this PT session you had to make the bumblebee jump 25 times. So sorry. Claim denied.
Hey he found a purpose for the Kinect microsoft owes him a share now LOL
C'est génial ! J'ai eu tellement du mal à me remettre pour mon genoux, ça, avec des jeux un peu plus drôle, ça aurait été top.
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Is he romanian ?
If he is I'm happy to see him doing it big.
This idea is really cool and I liked the part where he said he is going to make an option available for autistic kids. If that feature is available, then, I am very much interested in purchasing it.
It's a good idea, but one of the biggest issues is cost. Either the price for the software and hardware needs to be very cheap or insurance companies would have to agree to pay for it. Cooperating with insurance companies is hard to do and could result in higher premiums for customers.
Yeah but you need to throw some good MMOs in there…
god bless you
physical therapy or physio therapy?
We have been using Nintendo Wii for our physical therapy patients for years now and it works perfectly, i haven't had anyone complain and everybody likes it. its great.
We have computers telling us when to cross the street and when to stop and i see many people actually stopping to a red light when there is no car even close. And i see people crossing the street without even watching left and right, just following the green light like lemmings. Now we have computers for improving our own health, as improving our health would not be important enough to motivate by itself… Just another thing to make humanity more stupid and non-independent sheep robots as they already are 😉 please invent a computer game that makes people actually think by themselves!
PRO!!!
Would love to see more intensive therapies for patients with neuromuscular issues. I have grown up with Muscular Dystrophy, and PT was always tedious.
This is a cool idea. I am a physical therapist and I have used the Nintendo Wii in the past for patients. This is more specific than that, which is nice. I just don't like the title of this post because saying "play a game instead" suggests that you don't actually have to go to physical therapy in the first place, but that's not the case. You still need to be under the guidance of a physical therapist to use this program in order to perform the proper exercises and not exercises that will further the injury. You also need to initially go to a physical therapist for manual treatment, manipulation, modalities, and other things that you are not able to perform on your own. I love this idea and the potential it creates, just not the way it is advertised by saying "play a game instead"
You have no idea, how a good (there are quite a few.) physical therapist can actually help you son, so sit down with your childish video games and be quiet.
This is cool, but nothing truly new. Rehab gyms have been using Wii games an Kinect games as therapy for a some years.
This is a very good idea, but the cost of a Kinect is expensive. I doubt that a patient who is injured for a short amount of time will invest in a game this expensive. Maybe if this plan of treatment could also be used with a computer (camera built in) and just an app or download to access the PT exercise program.
I love computer nerds 🙂
Physical Therapists have been using games for decades; and electronic games since it has become mainstream. We use WiiFit, Kinect, and many other brands for neuro and orthopedics. We use all current technology now too. But your oversimplification of the profession is overwhelmingly ignorant. What you are asking for is what is called Repetitive Active Range of Motion which is a sliver of what physical therapy is about. Your product has good intentions but is very insulting in presentation.
As a Physical Therapist who loves technology, this would only create more non-essential and possible technical hurdles in the rehab world. Keep things simple. In my experience, Patients just need more education and coaching for compliance. If they understand WHY they are doing something and the consequences of not doing it, it usually gets done.
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First of all great talk. Second, using playful activities as a therapy intervention has been part of occupational therapy (OT) since its early beginnings. OT's would always take the motivational aspect (client centeredness), the clients environment and its personal capacities into acount to promote adherence.
i love physical therapy
think twice for your title here
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know i have a whole series of videos on getting into physio on my channel. I'd love to help future students as I am a current 3rd year Physio student, so if you're reading this and interested, get @ me!! 🙂
You aren't updated with the recent advances in Physiotherapy.
Have you heard of Mckenzie Physiotherapy, which is painless therapy.
Search on the internet.,
N all exercises can't be game oriented..
Yes you may design the way u wanna do it.
But why can't we trust our own body and brains.
It is limited to 0.001 of the conditions in physio domain, what about spinal or extremities manipulation or Mackenzie exercises?
What a great job
Im a physical therapist and software engineer,
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Jesus. From brushing your teeth to helping yourself recover from an injury has to be accompanied by some sort of device. If you don’t do home care that just laziness and shows lack self interest.
Me as a physical therapist felt inspirational at this unique concept.. It's fine to listen for such constructive suggestions and then will see how extensive and feasible its practise. Great ???
"Therapy is boring"
Starts boring video game.
He is complaining that it took his mom 5 months to heal…..5 months sounds about right for frozen shoulder.
Misleading title. There are plenty of PT treatments that arent boring and very effective. Compliance is complex. Not just due to “boring”
People also find eating healthy and exercise boring, hard, takes too long. Dosent mean its not the right treatment