Glenrose Rehabilitation hospital in Canada recently started using Nintendo Wii consoles to help it’s patients with movement or balance issues, and so far, this method has proved to be successful:

Don Simoneau, an occupational therapist at the Glenrose, said he has used the technology on only about five patients in the past two and a half months, but already the 200 hospital therapists are clamouring to be involved with the Wii equipment.

I think that the hospitals where I live are light years behind such innovation, but it’s nice to see console games helping people get better. And Nintendo gets, yet again, free publicity ;)

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