Can car accident victims benefit from the Wii?
Following a car accident, survivors may find that the personal injury they have suffered results in the need to have physiotherapy in hospital. They may also find that the exercises in that physiotherapy, however effective they are, are dull. One Welsh car crash victim who found the exercise routine boring made the news in 2008 when she bought a Nintendo Wii for the hospital that had treated her. The motion-detecting video-game console is not just to relieve boredom, as the donor believed it would be able to contribute fun to the physiotherapy process. An occupational therapist at the Swansea hospital agreed, saying, “”Using a games console like this can work well because it stimulates automatic movements, which is much better than the person thinking about it and trying to force their movement. “Of course, variety always helps and because a lot of people have similar games at home they can practice using the same equipment in between their appointments.” It is not the only time the co
