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Friday
Simulator helps stroke victims drive again
"Researchers are using a computer-generated course simulator that helps stroke victims learn to drive again.
The researchers, at the Medical College of Georgia, said patients receiving the five-week simulator training are nearly twice as likely as stroke patients without the training to pass an official driving test.
Abiodun Akinwuntan, a physical therapy instructor and the study's lead researcher, said patients traditionally re-learn driving skills using conventional methods, such as paper-and-pencil-based training.
In 2003, Akinwuntan and colleagues at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, the Belgian Road Safety Institute in Brussels and University Hospital in Pellenberg, Belgium, studied 83 stroke patients in the hospital's rehabilitation unit.
Using a 20-mile computer-simulated course Akinwuntan developed, patients practiced driving in virtual rural and urban settings, each testing a different skill level.
The patients "drive" in a specially equipped car on a course projected onto a large screen. Mistakes are monitored both by computer and an observer.Simulator helps stroke victims drive again
The researchers, at the Medical College of Georgia, said patients receiving the five-week simulator training are nearly twice as likely as stroke patients without the training to pass an official driving test.
Abiodun Akinwuntan, a physical therapy instructor and the study's lead researcher, said patients traditionally re-learn driving skills using conventional methods, such as paper-and-pencil-based training.
In 2003, Akinwuntan and colleagues at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, the Belgian Road Safety Institute in Brussels and University Hospital in Pellenberg, Belgium, studied 83 stroke patients in the hospital's rehabilitation unit.
Using a 20-mile computer-simulated course Akinwuntan developed, patients practiced driving in virtual rural and urban settings, each testing a different skill level.
The patients "drive" in a specially equipped car on a course projected onto a large screen. Mistakes are monitored both by computer and an observer.Simulator helps stroke victims drive again