Wiihabilitation?

I suddenly remembered that a friend told me about the wonder Wii had made to patients recovering from illness such as stroke, getting out of surgeries and also combat injuries. Here is the article about how Wii helped these people... and I also remembered my brother telling me that doctors that play games show better skills during surgery or suture (jahit luka)..playing video games somehow increases the doctors reactions and hand skills ( i don't know how far this claim is true, so i searched for it too) andI found about this...a doctor, a laparoscopic surgeon(dia bedah orang by making smallest bukaan as possible) did a survey at the hospital where he worked and here's the result:-

Rosser surveyed 33 surgeons about their video game playing habits. Then he assessed their performance in a training course that tests surgeons on their skill and speed. "We found out that people who had played at least 3 hours a week in the past, they were faster and they also committed fewer errors than the people who did not have any video game experience," he reports. "And the people who were currently playing video games were also better than the ones not currently playing."

Researchers found that

(a) participants who once played video games for more than three hours per week had a 37% reduction in errors when performing laparoscopic surgery and accomplished their surgical task 27% more quickly than their non video-game-playing counterparts;

(b) participants who had played video games experienced a 28% reduction in errors when suturing and accomplished their suturing 24% more quickly;

(c) current video game players scored 40% better overall in the teaching program; and

(d) current video game skill and past video game experience were significantly more indicative of laparoscopic surgical proficiency than years of training or number of laparoscopic cases performed previously.

here is the full story and here is the other one ..

* ade persamaan tak sikit2?*

In my personal opinion..surgeons do function better kalau derang dah biase play games, because most of the surgeries these days (rasenye most laa if not some..hehe) use interface which means masukkan any probe (yang usually nampak mcm wand harry potter tak pon batang2 besi) into the patients body and then the inside of the patient will be dispaly on an LCD, so orang2 yang play video games, unexpectedly trained their brain to match what's on screen to what's at the end of their apparatus...cool kan?...the class i'm taking this semester talks a lot about these kind of stuff and ways to improve the precision and accuracy...suke class nih...cikgu dia sooo baik jugak...okaylaa..nak stop dah...i have to finish my project report for this superb class...but not so great lab work...heh..suke buat tapi tak suke report..boleh tak?

wallahua'lam~

p/s: pengajaran hari ini..mainlah banyak2 video games and console games..kalau kene marah..tunjuk laa blog nih ^_^