Have you ever imagine yourslef after a car accident? Lying on the bed in a hospital afgter surgery and instead of medicines and hard displeasing retrieval discipline you'd simply step on the hi-tech board, the doctor would turn the monster monitor on with a race boat simulator - and your goal would be just to race as the way of recovery? Why not. Now it's possible.
Does it sound like a fiction? I'm sure it is, but the scientists and medics in Chaim Sheba Rehabilitation Hospital in Israel are not the same opinion. Actually, they started a programme called "Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment", which is still in research stage tho but with great acclaim.
"The system immerses the patients in a fully reactive virtual and physical environment, using tiny sensors placed on the body, 12 high-speed infrared cameras, a moving platform that reacts to the patients' weight distribution and a life-size 3-D projection screen. The system's goal is to simulate daily activities like driving a car and virtual reality helps the patients retrain their brains and bodies to function and works much faster than traditional rehabilitation methods."
That's really cool, isn't it?
(original sources: Chicago Tribune, The Standard Weekend, TV etc)
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