COSMOBOING! THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE SYSTEM

描述(申请者提供)：宇宙波音的长远目标！治疗运动系统旨在开发一种适合儿童的、引人入胜的工具，以确保残疾儿童参与并受益于规定的治疗运动。该系统将为两类儿童提供服务。第一组是后天和发育残疾儿童，由于缺乏身体活动的影响，他们有患上继发性疾病的风险。对物理治疗有特殊、迫切需求的儿童是拟议项目成果涉及的第二个群体。我们假设，如果促进锻炼的系统以吸引人和有趣的方式进行锻炼，而锻炼是参与活动的手段，那么这两个群体都更有可能参与锻炼，并因此从锻炼中受益。该项目的具体目标是将两套面向儿童的治疗运动系统：由AnthroTronix，Inc.(ATIC)开发的CosmoBot套装和由国家康复医院(NRH)开发的Boing！/Ani-Mate工具整合成一种交互式多媒体产品，该产品能抓住儿童的兴趣，并将他们指定的运动嵌入到它所推广的“游戏”中。这两款现有产品的功能将被整合到一个复合包装中，CosmoBoing！，设计得到改进，并进行了功能测试。这项工作主要包括对Boing！的机械修改，基于Cosmobot系统的ATIC任务控制组件的分布式交换播放器接口的设计和制造，以及Boing！的集成。具有任务控制架构的蹦极张力传感器。宇宙波音！随后将在NRH儿童康复中心进行试点，抽取代表上述目标人群的24名儿童作为样本。宇宙波音的技术、治疗和商业可行性！将在一个代表医学、职业疗法、物理疗法、言语语言病理学和治疗康复的康复专家小组开发和监督的临床试验中进行评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of the CosmoBoing! Therapeutic Exercise System is to develop a child-friendly, engaging tool for assuring that children with disabilities participate in and benefit from prescribed therapeutic exercise. The system will serve two populations of children. The first group is comprised of children with acquired and developmental disabilities who are at risk for secondary conditions due to the effects of physical inactivity. Children with specific, acute needs for physical therapy make up the second population addressed by the outcomes of the proposed project. We hypothesize that both populations are more likely to engage in and therefore benefit from exercise if the system that promotes it does so in a manner that is appealing and fun, with exercise serving as the means to activity engagement. The specific aims of the project are to integrate two suites of child-oriented therapeutic exercise systems: The CosmoBot package developed at Anthrotronix, Inc. (Atinc) and the Boing!/Ani-Mate tool developed at National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) into an interactive multimedia product that captures the interest of children and embeds their prescribed exercise in the "games" it promotes. The features of the two existing products will be integrated into a composite package, CosmoBoing!, the design refined and functionally tested. This work primarily consists of mechanical revisions to Boing!, design and fabrication of a distributed-switch player interface based on the Atinc Mission Control component of the Cosmobot system, and integration of the Boing! bungee tension sensor with the Mission Control architecture. CosmoBoing! will then be piloted at NRH's children's rehab center with a sample of twenty-four children representing the target population defined above. The technical, therapeutic and commercial feasibility of CosmoBoing! will be evaluated in clinical trials developed and monitored by a Panel of rehab experts representing Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, and Therapeutic Recreation.