Teaching people ADLs after injury does not have to be limited to dressing, grooming, and feeding functions. A therapist wants their patient to function at maximum capacity. A large part of preserving the patient’s way of life is to restore as much of their independence as possible.
ACT’s vision is to support our professional clients through adaptive technology that will help patient improvement.
Once the evaluating clinician identifies what specific deficits exist and determines the rehabilitation potential for the patient, they can order a specific adaptive control device for that patient. These controllers are customizable based on the patient’s individual deficits.
Let ACT provide the tools and the training for those tools. This allows the clinician to focus on helping improve the patient’s life.
The clinician’s goal, and biggest challenge, is to incentivize the patient to comply with any sound therapy rehab plan. Patients with fine motor disorders will benefit from rehab that delivers a sense of purpose and fulfillment.
Combine the patient’s needs with the clinician’s plan that incorporates gamification through adaptive control technology and reduce incidence of relapse and noncompliance.
Patients waking up with a spinal cord injury have a difficult and lengthy road to recovery. Video games can be used to reach an agreeable level of recovery, and then to maintain it. ACT controllers provide a device that empowers the patient to not simply comply with their rehab plan but motivates the patient to feel like they are an active part of it.
In addition to helping their patients re-establish neuropathways and re-energize neuromuscular connections, the clinician wants to help them become as independent as possible. Everyone desires independence. In a situation where complete independence will not be possible, the clinician must establish a rehab plan that will allow the most amount of fulfillment and purpose for the patient.
Adaptive control technologies allow the patient to perform the rehab plan in a fun and social environment through gamification. Online gaming is interactive and mentally stimulating. The patient’s physical rehabilitation becomes exciting, competitive, and worthwhile!
Virtual Reality simulations create a safe, controlled environment for patients to undergo addiction rehabilitation treatment. This technology provides patients the ability to develop coping strategies through a combination of exposure therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Patients learn how to deal with situations that may trigger harmful behavior, including regression.
Leveraging virtual assets aimed at providing relief from real world triggers, clinicians guide patients on how to best cope while being exposed to particular scenarios. Rather than exclusively relying on imagination and visualization, the patient can experience a virtual world. Clinicians can enhance the visual experience to include audio, tactic feedback, and smells all while monitoring the patient in the simulations and measuring their progress.
The goal of VR exposure therapy is to allow a patient, while guided by a trained clinician, to use visual stimuli in simulated scenarios to confront triggers in a safe environment, allowing the patient to approach and cope with the feelings these triggers create.
This therapy requires well-trained clinical care providers. These clinicians must understand the unique challenges of their patients in order for the therapy to return qualitative and quantitative results.
Using VR with behavioral therapies helps patients recognize, avoid, and cope with situations in which they are most likely to use drugs. Clinicians help patients modify their attitudes and behaviors related to drug use.
Virtual Reality has emerged as an innovative tool in healthcare in both the medical and dentistry fields. It has several benefits over traditional systems and methods for education and treatment.
VR offers incredible breakthrough methods for medical practitioners to:
Patients benefit through therapy for:
