Nintendo Wii balance boards

The Nintendo Wii Balance Board could be a far cheaper alternative than professional diagnostic tests for clinicians to prevent spray in the elderly and those with neurological conditions such as stroke and Parkinson’s disease, the new inquiry reveals. The analyze was led by Dr Ross Clark of the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne and presented online in December in the international journal Gait and Posture.

Worldwide, about one in three people over the age of 65 reduce at slightest once each year. Of these people, between 10% and 30% bear a resolute injury such as breakage or journey pain. “The elderly and people torment neurological conditions have impaired position weigh. This has a detrimental concern on their ability to utility and increases their hazard of falling,” Dr Clark says.

Several assessment protocols have been devised to hardship stability and vulnerability to waterfall. These predominantly use a constrain plate, which trial how much a role sways during normal standing. Dr Clark says: “These are very helpful, but also costly, trying to set up and cumbersome to elate.” Slim and trim, the sleek, all-white unit (available now in iPod-type coloring only, upon which stains and markings will sadly show up clearly, though differently-shaded alternatives are surely coming) measures just 8.5″ x 6″ x 2″, or approximately the size of three stacked DVD cases as advertised. Not only does it run quietly and coolly, as opposed to the noisy, nigh nuclear meltdown-inducing beast that is an Xbox 360.

This gadget costs around $699.