WHAT EXPERTS SAY ABOUT VIRTUALREHAB
Chief Executive Office, Microsoft
“Virtualware “built a solution using Kinect connected to a PC that can be anywhere in a remote location….and then the physical therapy solutions are personalised. It’s amazing to see the innovation, the quality of innovation and then the democratization of that innovation……”
Manager of the Meridia Day Centre for the Elderly (Mexico City)
“The service (physiotherapy with VirtualRehab), which will be offered in clinics, hospitals, health centres and in the patients’ own homes, will help improve the adherence to the treatments as well as greatly improve the patients’ recuperation.”
Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation Clinic Director, UCL Hospital, (UK)
“When we saw the possibilities that VirtualRehab offered, especially the customizable games and patient data monitoring, we were immediately interested in incorporating it into our existing services in Queen Square”
Manager of the MS Association of Vizcaya, Spain (ADEMBI)
“The objectives we try to reach with traditional rehabilitation are also achieved when using VirtualRehab, which additionally improves the adherence to the treatments and the motivation of the patients”
President of The Spanish Neurorehabilitation Society
“With videogames like VirtualRehab, more brain regions are activated than in other kinds of traditional games because the execution of movements requires a planning which involves many more areas: the visual , hearing, motor and sensory systems. It’s difficult to activate all of these areas in normal therapy”
WHAT THERAPISTS THINK ABOUT VIRTUALRHEHAB
Responsible for physiotherapy services ADEMBI, Spain
“Although at the beginning I was reluctant to use videogames, as of today, our experience shows that VirtualRehab is a viable, comfortable and simple to use tool which improves the patients’ quality of life”
Physiotherapist, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital, Essex
“Repetitive exercises are an essential part of treatment and rehabilitation for patients with neurological conditions, but
they can become boring. And therapy assistants can be trained to support patients to use VirtualRehab, so that senior therapists have more time for other specialist patient care”
HOW PATIENTS FEEL ABOUT USING VIRTUALREHAB
Patient at Basildon Hospital
“‘I believe VirtualRehab played a vital part in the recovery from my first relapse. The program encouraged me to exercise and train my balance using a series of fun games. I could notice improvement each week when I was using this software’”
72 year-old patient – Basildon, UK
“It’s important for me to develop and maintain strength in my upper body and core muscles. I have to use my arms to move
myself around, and I need to stretch and reach for things. Just from the exercises I have tried on the programme I can really feel I have done something.”
WHO IS USING VIRTUALREHAB?
SPAIN
INTERNATIONAL
