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Helping Kids with SMA Win with a Physiotherapy Game

Healthcare IT Today

Physiotherapy is hard. Raft Digital Therapeutics (Raft) created an interactive video game to help children with a rare degenerative neuromuscular disease – Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – to maintain their physical abilities, improve outcomes, and promote a higher quality of life. And for us, that means shoulder activities.

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Innovation is for Kids at Holland Bloorview

Healthcare IT Today

They are looking at non-invasive technologies that can “read” kids’ thoughts and allow them to control their environment – be it a wheelchair, video game, or light switch. The child (or caregiver) can then use coping strategies to reduce the anxiety before it reaches a level where more drastic measures are needed. Anxiety meter.