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Physiotherapists at a hospital in Leeds, UK, are using Wii Fit to aid patients recovering from amputation surgery. Staff at Seacroft Hospital say that Wii Fit’s bundled balance board can help teach a recovering patient how to use their new prosthetic limbs, as the device can accurately ...
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Wii Fit Balance Board Helps Amputees
The Escapist : Latest News — ... in helping him learn to walk again. With Wii Fit , Crossland can "ski down a mountain or head a football [soccer, to us Yanks] during sessions using the machine - even though he has a prosthetic leg." Hirst hopes that other institutes in the UK - if not worldwide - will follow Seacroft's example in adding Wii Fit to their arsenal of tools to rehabilitate patients. Of course, this means that hospitals would have to find a store that has the damn things in stock first. (Via Edge Online )

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