Game and Medicine
Researchers has always been intrigued by the effect of playing video games, whether it is negative or possitive. The media is often fill with negative reports of video game, but for once game have make a comeback as a tool to help doctors reduce pain in patients as well as perk up depression associated with cancer.
HopeLab has released Re-mission, a third-person shooter game sets in the vein and organ of human body featuring a nanobot blasting away on cancel cells.
After conducting a reseach with cancer patients age between 13 to 29 at 34 sites, over 70% of the patients become more possitive on their recovery and took their antibiotics much more regularly. Perhaps even more strikingly, 54 Re-Mission players saw their blood levels of an oral chemotherapy medicine maintained at a higher rate. This finding has not yet been replicated, but Kato believes that the empowering game-play—kids literally fight cancer—might improve patients’ attitudes about treatment and in turn help boost their bodies’ healing process.
HopeLab had filled more than 30,000 orders for the game from 55 countries since launching Re-Mission in April, currently HopeLab is working on games to treat autism, depression, sickle cell anemia, and childhood obesity.
Meanwhile, in public schools in the US state of West Virginia to determine whether playing the game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) made by Japan-based Konami Corporation helps children get fit. DDR is a music video game played on a dance pad featuring four pressure-sensitive panels with arrows pointing in 4 direction.
Players will need synchronize their steps to tunes by stepping on the appropriate arrows as symbols scroll along a video screen, this provide ample chance for hopping and jumping much the same way as a session of aerobic does.
It wouldn’t be long from now, hospitals would be fill with specific games to help patient’s recovery. Fitness center might be prompt to provide arcades machines along side with a treadmill and sets of dumbell.
“An apple and a game a day keeps the doctor away.” The day when this rings truth is soon to come.
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