Wii Fit
Feasibility of Wii Fit training to improve clinical measures of balance in older adults
... the Wii Balance Board with Wii Fit (Figure ...with Wii Fit prior to training, and as such there was room for improvement after beginning ...
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Valpreventie onder ouderen : revalidatie van verslechterde balans met hulp van de Nintendo Wii Fit
... Nintendo Wii Fit op de Verslechterde Balans van Ouderen? Uit het huidige onderzoek blijkt dat het gebruik van de Nintendo Wii Fit als valpreventie bij ouderen met verslechterde balans gunstige ...
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Dynamic stability requirements during gait and standing exergames on the wii fit® system in the elderly
... weight from one leg to the other to control the avatar and lead it between slalom gates. The last game was Soccer, during which the player also has to shift his weight from one leg to the other to move the avatar’s body ...
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Effectiveness and safety of Nintendo Wii Fit Plus<sup>TM</sup> training in children with migraine without aura: a preliminary study
... the Wii-balance board and Nintendo Wii Fit Plus™ software (Nintendo Co, Ltd, Kyoto, Japan); training lasted for 12 weeks and consisted of three 30-minute sessions per week at their ...
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Feasibility, safety, acceptability, and functional outcomes of playing Nintendo Wii Fit Plus™ for frail elderly: study protocol for a feasibility trial
... Background: Frailty can be defined as a medical syndrome with multiple causes and contributors, characterized by diminished strength and endurance and reduced physiological function that increases the vulnerability to ...
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DETERMINING INTENSITY LEVELS FOR SELECTED WII FIT ACTIVITIES IN COLLEGE AGED INDIVIDUALS
... Nintendo Wii® utilizes activity from all four limbs to satisfactorily complete Wii Fit exercises; therefore individuals with previous self-reported injuries that currently limit mobility in any of ...
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Is the Nintendo Wii Fit really acceptable to older people?: a discrete choice experiment
... Participants (N = 21) had a mean age of 85.4 years (SD 4.7) and the majority were female (86%). Participants ’ mean length of stay on the geriatric rehabilitation unit was 12 days. Participants were relatively high ...
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Using the Wii Fit as a tool for balance assessment and neurorehabilitation: the first half decade of “Wii-search”
... Nintendo Wii Fit was released just over five years ago as a means of improving basic fitness and overall ...the Wii Fit has generated specific interest in the domain of neurorehabilitation as ...
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Home-based balance training using Wii Fit™: a pilot randomised controlled trial with mobile older stroke survivors
... the Wii™ exer- cise programme to be perceived as less ...selected Wii™ games required weight- shifting movements over the Wii™ Balance Board as a fixed ...The Wii™ package offers more ...
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Autonomous exercise game use improves metabolic control and quality of life in type 2 diabetes patients - a randomized controlled trial
... Data about the use of exercise games for lifestyle intervention in the elderly are scarce, although a sys- tematic review revealed significant health benefits in older adults [13]. For Wii Fit, especially, ...
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The energy cost of playing active video games in children with obesity and children of a healthy weight
... Nintendo Wii Sports Boxing, or 42 min playing Nintendo Wii Fit Free Jogging to expend 300 ...with Wii Fit Free Jogging for 15 min, the net increase in energy expenditure would be ...
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The Nintendo Wii, virtualisation and gestural analogics
... the Wii Fit ‘games’ are used for the purposes of fitness conditioning - in keeping with the other personal-improvement ‘games’ that Nintendo have specialised in, such as the ‘mental fitness,’ makeup and ...
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Use of Nintendo Wii™ (Wii) Gaming Console for Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy
... Nintendo Wii Fit on clinical measures of balance control for children with spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy although these effects did not translate into functional ...
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The Effects of Virtual Rehabilitation Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Feasibility Study
... Nintendo Wii Balance Board™ to train standing balance in older adults using specially designed ...6-week Wii™ intervention study with community-dwelling older adults and, although there were no ...
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Does a Wii-based exercise program enhance balance control of independently functioning older adults? A systematic review
... Nintendo Wii Fit was used to enhance standing balance performance in older adults and compared with an alternative exercise treatment, placebo, or no ...of Wii- based exercise compared with no ...
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Virtual Reality-Based Training on Upper Body Movement and Activities of Daily Life in Older Adults with Parkinson’s Disease
... of virtual reality in balance training with patients with Parkinson’s compared to conventional balance training and concluded that there were no significant differences between the outcomes of the two treatment methods. ...
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Tackling obesity in mental health secure units: a mixed method synthesis of available evidence
... Increased physical activity was the focus of one Australian case study that included two patients, assessed during their use of Wii Fit. Findings highlighted the importance of competition for the male ...
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Sit still and pay attention: Using the Wii Balance-Board to detect lapses in concentration in children during psychophysical testing.
... a Wii Fit Balance Board (Nintendo ...the Wii Fit in particular (Clinton, D ’ Mello, & van den Broek, 2012), have already been shown to be productive indicators of task engagement in ...
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Study protocol of a randomized clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of a primary care intervention using the Nintendo™ Wii console to improve balance and decrease falls in the elderly
... During the training sessions, each participant was barefoot on the balance board, carrying out the differ- ent exercises in the balance area of the Wii Fit™ game, according to the indications made on the ...
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Small farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance: insights from Kenya
... toward WII in developed countries, such as Germany and Finland [30, ...for WII in Ethiopia and Bangladesh [32, ...for WII was also deter- mined by perceived frequency of droughts and the type of ...
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