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Physical therapy using a playing-wall with led lights. This is the new way of helping
children who are physically challenged. Today this interactive wall of light was officially
opened at the rehabilitation center Blixembosch.
We’ve integrated led lights and sensors in the wall, and linked them to each other.
When a user, in this case a rehabilitating child, touches the wall with a hand or any
other part of the body, the wall lights up.
So the wall allows children to rehabilitate in a playful way.
Children use the Nebula very intuitive and that gives them the feeling that they are
rehabilitating while playing and moving.
Therefore the therapy session is experienced in a completely different way, compared to a traditional setting.
Children can for example have problems with standing and walking.
They come to the physiotherapist to practice this.
Now they can do this by finding support on this wall and find their balance.
At the same time, the occupational therapist can challenge a child to use the
hand which is partially disabled. For example by letting the child make two balloons at
the same time, and when this works, let the balloons pop at the same time…
Yes it’s fun. Because there are all these lights.
That’s why it’s called the light wall.
You can make balloons by yourself, and when you touch it, it goes… up.
With your bottoms, have you tried that already? Yes you did, you made lights with your bottom.
The light wall is the idea of the company NYOYN, located in Eindhoven in The Netherlands.
An idea which has already become an international success.
At this moment we’re busy working with all kinds of professionals in the health care
area, to find out how we can use the Nebula in the best possible way for therapy.
This can be for physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, you name it.
It can be for children, but also for example for early dementing people.
Gaming has entered a different world: the world we call ‘Serous Gaming’.
Where it isn’t just about the fun factor, but where you can learn something as well.
Up to now, people see gaming as something that makes children obese, but gaming is starting
to become more and more adult and we start to understand this medium.
Children feel more autonomous, independent, and they can feel closer to others.
These aspects are very contagious and support many learning processes, such as this one.
At the rehabilitation center the light wall has become a standard element in the therapy.
Every year about 800 children are treated in this center.