Computer games in rehabilitation

With the availability of low-cost motion sensing hardware has come the opportunity for games that target segments of the market, such as rehabilitation users. An example is the development of Nintendo Wii http://www.nintendo.com/wii . Dr. Glenna Dowling of University of California at San Francisco has partnered with Red Hill studios http://redhillstudios.com/ to develop games specifically for individuals with Parkinson's disease and for children with cerebral palsy. This partnership resulted from two grants provided by the National Institutes for Health http://www.nih.gov/ for 1.1 million dollars. Read more... http://news.ucsf.edu/releases/red-hill-studios-ucsf-partnership-awarded-1.1-million-for-health-based-comp/