Virtual Reality for Paediatric Rehabilitation

Location: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Applicant: Dr Dido Green, Clinical Expert Occupational Therapist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Award: £19,500
Start date: 1/10/2008

Project intentions:
To develop a virtual environment to enhance rehabilitation programmes for children with neurological disorders by providing therapists with an effective tool to help these children improve their spatial awareness and movement control.

Results:
Dr Dido Green and colleagues presented their work at the 2008 HemiHelp conference, 'Developments in the management of hemiplegia'.
You can download their presentation here: Emerging Therapies – Use of Virtual Reality to improve upper-limb function.