The Practical Work of Ensuring Effective Use of Serious Games in a Rehabilitation Clinic: A Qualitative Study

JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
João Almeida, Francisco Nunes

Abstract

Many rehabilitation clinics adopted serious games to support their physiotherapy sessions. Serious games can monitor and provide feedback on exercises and are expected to improve therapy and help professionals deal with more patients. However, there is little understanding of the impacts of serious games on the actual work of physiotherapists. This study aimed to understand the impact of an electromyography-based serious game on the practical work of physiotherapists. This study used observation sessions in an outpatient rehabilitation clinic that recently started using a serious game based on electromyography sensors. In total, 44 observation sessions were performed, involving 3 physiotherapists and 22 patients. Observation sessions were documented by audio recordings or fieldnotes and were analyzed for themes with thematic analysis. The findings of this study showed that physiotherapists played an important role in enabling the serious game to work. Physiotherapists briefed patients, calibrated the system, prescribed exercises, and supported patients while they played the serious game, all of which amounted to relevant labor. The results of this work challenge the idea that serious games reduce the work of physiotherapists an...Continue Reading

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Aug 19, 2020·JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies·Reza Haghighi OsgoueiFernando Bello
Feb 2, 2021·JMIR Serious Games·Christian Alexander GarskeKianoush Nazarpour

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