As I was driving my daughter to school this morning, listening to NPR, they were having a discussion that interested me. The conversation was how the game station Wii has been used in both nursing homes and with physical therapy patients of all ages with great success. The physical therapist being interviewed stated that finding ways, especially with younger patients, to do their exercises every day can be hard. With this video game station, they actually want to do it.
Another person called in and spoke a little about a school that uses these types of activities with children that have ADHD or depression. Typically these students have performed lower in math and reading. What they decided to do was have these children actually exercise or play Dance Dance Revolution prior to studying, and the results had great success.
Not sure where I stand on either issue as of yet, but found it interesting.
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