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To quote that anoying NFL gear commercial, "I want one!""Our No. 1 one goal is to help these patients manage their pain and improve their quality of life," Nathin said.
The center opened May 1 and Rouse was one of its first patients. Recently, he worked out on some of the high-tech equipment in the functional rehabilitation room. The machines use the Monitored Rehab System, a sophisticated computerized program used by the New England Patriots, the doctors said.
As a patient lifts weight with his back or legs, a kind of video game pops up on the screen in front of him. A red dot goes back and forth along the bottom of the screen and its movement is controlled by the patient's motion. The goal is for the patient to stop falling blue dots by hitting them back up with the red one, reminiscent of the 1970's Atari game, "Pong."
The machine records the patient's accuracy, and in turn his strength and control, and records it for next time. The technology helps patients see incremental improvements that would otherwise be hard to measure and therefore discouraging to the patient, the doctors said.