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Would you have thought that a person with Cerebal Palsy (CP) – no matter how severe the injury is – can play tennis, golf, and box and can achieve the same results like their healthy fellows, can break out in sweat, develop muscle fatigue and fight to win a point? All this, despite the fact that people with cerebral palsy characteristically have little muscle on them, are overweight beyond their teenage years, have coordination problems, and can have sensory injuries, which may impede locomotory experiences as well as a lack of attention and concentration. We have used the virtual world to assist us. Using the Wii console we studied the effects of play on 10-18 year old children with CP (N=19) over a period of 30 weeks. The physical, psychological and mental tests we conducted at the outset and the end of the study has provided a good evidence of the changes we have observed. The results of the work we have performed have shown well that playful exercise tasks had a beneficial impact on the psychological status; children experienced a sense of success, which motivated them to work on, to develop while playing, and to become more active, while practice and play also resulted in muscle development. Their cognitive function was also positively influenced (attention, memory and concentration). There was development of the locomotory condition of even the very gravely injured children with CP, their injured side became more active, in the case of atetotic children there was improvement in their targeted movements, whereas the endurance of diplegic and the fine motorics of the tetraparetic children also improved.
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