Wii Balance Board

tend to eat more when they 're playing them.” While this may be an undisputed fact, researchers say that modern video games promote physical activity, like the XBOX Live. This is a video game that requires the player to move around and act out simulations along with their onscreen selves. Even if a video game doesn 't require physical activity, simple sports simulations encourage children to actually learn the real life skills required for the game. For people who suffer with MS, or multiple sclerosis, video games have been a huge part of regaining their balance. There are no drugs to help victims with their balance, and some tested drugs actually make matters worse. Researchers and scientists are constantly looking for new ways to help patients with multiple sclerosis, and they have found a buffer in video games such as Wii, Wii Fit, and XBOX Live. Health Day states, “It appears that patients who use the Wii Balance Board five days a week -- moving to snowboarding or dance games, for example -- may help reduce their risk of falls and boost certain brain connections.” They say that this might be because they are coordinating their movements with an avatar, but they know one thing: it works. Although mental health outlets have attempted to disprove the healthy effects of video games for years, undiluted evidence cannot be overlooked. The credibility of video games for mental and physical well being stands undisputed. Video games may have negative consequences, but the…

Balance Assessment in Parkinson’s Disease Using Virtual Reality Evidence-based practice includes the integration of patient values and focuses on the most appropriate course of action through clinical expertise and best available research. In order to produce the best research a clinician must form an adequate question and search strategy, critique the research found, critically interpret the findings, and apply them to each patient scenario. For instance, a clinical scenario could be, “Gerald…

Wii Fit is a video game that was designed by Hiroshi Matsunaga at Nintendo, which was released originally in Japan and then subsequently released to the United States in 2008. At release, there were over one million units sold and it was reported to have sold out at pre-launch sales nationwide. With such a high demand for this new type of active video game and shortage of supplies, it created a market for increased profit that more than doubled the base of the price at places, such as Amazon and…

About 32.93 million systems were sold worldwide. 387 games were released for this system. One of the accessories was a rumble pack. It made the controller vibrate. The Game Cube was the next console in the line-up. It used discs instead of cartridges to play games. It was released in North America in 2001 and came in many different colors. It cost $200 and sold 22 million systems. It required a memory card to save game data. DK Bongos was an added accessory for this console. The next…

This design is appropriate for the study conducted and research question. There was no control group in this study. The intervention group received 6 weeks of home-exercise utilizing the Wii with treatment beginning with patient’s first home-visit from a healthcare team member. Patient’s began with warm-up exercises and then performed walking and balance exercises for 5 minutes each day for the first 5 days of the first week of the intervention. At the end of each week, patient’s perceived…

You’re at your friend’s house to play his brand new awesome Kinect system. Of course you are really enjoying it and it’s probably the best thing ever. But you can’t help to be curious about such a complex thing, you may not wander on it but there is that little spot in your brain that just makes you wonder about these ingenious inventions. Almost everyone here today is probably familiar with the most famous and exquisite game consoles. Today’s technology has enabled us to create some of the most…

popularity continued to grow as they released the Nintendo DS (2004) which was a handheld consoles that had an upper screen and a lower touch screen. It was based off of the “Game & Watch” handheld series. The Nintendo DS was so popular that Nintendo released altered version of it like the DSi which included a camera. Perhaps the most interesting one was the 3DS. The 3DS features the lower touch screen but the upper screen has 3D technology that allows you to view 3D images in stereoscopic 3D;…

The years of the 1970’s is famous for the groovy bell-bottoms, the rise of disco and how could anyone forget, the invention of video games. However, it wasn’t all fun and games. It was an era of economic struggle and cultural change. Many American groups fought for social and political rights, one being a combat for women rights. Women are being objectified by men and politics. They did not have the right to vote, to hold public office, to have reproductive rights, to work or to have fair wages,…

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result of these reasons. Another reason that caused a shortage for Sony is their rivals companies raised their prices so the consumers switched to the PS3 and in the same time they liked the product and believed it is superior to its competitors. Sony was not expected this so they failed to act quickly to limit the shortage. But in the meantime Sony did several upgrades to the devices and produced new versions to the console, to increase the option in front of the consumers and in the same time…