- Robotic Therapy Tiles To Help Patients Recover
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Play way method is the best way to learn something new or may be even best to recover from surgery or injuries. Keeping this in mind a robotics and artificial-intelligence professor Henrik Hautop Lund at the University of Southern Denmark is developing therapy tiles that direct patients through physical routines and help them heal. That means patients will be soon able to a full recovery with intelligent robotic systems that generate specialized games to challenge the human body's abilities. As patients step on or press the tiles with their hands, the tiles give feedback, indicating whether their pressure is firm enough, or if the user is moving quickly enough. Patients become so engrossed with the tiles that they often make progress with less effort than trying to stick to a boring workout routine.Cardiac patients can compete with each other in a color race to get their pulse rate up to the required levels healing becomes almost an afterthought. Patients can eventually take the tiles home because the playware is easy to set up and use.
Source - October 2, 2007 - 7:38 AM | Posted in - Health






