| townzy89 said: WTF are you all seriously touched by this??? may i ask how? if all it took was a few stretching exercises on wii fit the girl could have been walking god damm 3 years ago. she didnt need to wait for a piece of plastic to do it on. |
This isn’t a fanboy issue, there is plenty of REAL evidence that the Wii and Wii Fit have proven useful. We operate a large Children’s hospital, I’ve seen with my own eyes their suffering. Anything that helps is fine by me. If you want documentation see my posting on page three.
If sometimes it’s just a case of children, and sometimes adults, responding to it because it’s more fun than conventional therapy, that’s fine too. Whatever works the hell, works.
In the case that the Director of Rheumatology discussed with me, a little boy had a very debilitating and painful form of arthritis. The only way to get improvement is to become more active but that is extremely painful, especially at first. The boy hadn’t responded well to efforts to get him to move. They basically started with Wii Sports and just left it there running with the tennis game. He wasn’t able to resist the urge to participate, first with just hand movements and later with his arm. Finally it was apparently the ski jump that got him to stand. Today he is walking and using Wii Fit to relearn balance using its remarkable ability to measure balance and provide feedback. He’s also able to do much of this at home with his mother’s help cutting back greatly on expensive physical therapy.
The director says he has since gone on to use it with other patients with equal success.
If you can find anything in this to be cynical about and imply that there is something wrong with this, well I’m sorry for you. Fortunately there are physicians and therapists that are a little more open minded.
