Video game against multiple sclerosis

• April 26, 2024

The ability to regain control of the body, jump and fall standing before oneself or go back to wearing heels without losing balance, are some achievements that a group of patients with multiple sclerosis claims to have gotten with a new therapy combined video game Y tele-rehabilitation .

In an interview for GetQoralHealth , the vice president of UCEM Laura Montiel tells us about the family impact of this disease:

According to information from the agencyEFE , this technique complements the conventional ones and its purpose is to improve the quality of life of these patients, and to treat physical symptoms such as alterations of balance, in a fun way and involving the family in the rehabilitation process.

The therapy is part of an investigation undertaken almost a year ago in the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid , by a team that involves doctors, physiotherapists, nurses, psychologists, with the aim of analyzing the benefits of a novelty rehabilitation therapy for patients of multiple sclerosis .

The first results, for now preliminary, show a tendency to significant improvement on the part of the patients. Those responsible for the research agree on the medical progress and the advantages of taking the treatment of the physiotherapy home or rehabilitation at home.

In addition to improving the effects with respect to conventional treatments in view of the alterations in the balance of these patients, the technique is much more economical and comfortable.

The video game system Microsoft XBOX , with system Kinect , allows you to play without control, using only body movements, together with a therapy of remote monitoring on the Internet by physiotherapists .

The choice of multiple sclerosis for the project it has to do with the drama of a disease that affects fairly young adults, who are diagnosed for the first time with the disease in ages between 20 and 40 years.

It is a neurological disease that affects the brain , trunk of encephalon Y spinal cord , because of the deterioration of myelin , a substance that covers nerve fibers .

Two of the patients involved in this project, whose final results are expected to be published around the spring, and whose first phase has just concluded, have highlighted the enormous satisfaction of being able to do things as simple as jumping, thanks to the new technique

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