Time Lord  Posts: 10058 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2583 Joined: 27 Sep 2008   | Easing pain is usually a good thing, so that's great. And it can't hurt the gaming world's image. |
BANNED  Posts: 3486 Joined: 25 Aug 2008     |
Can't hurt? More, is seriously helping! This gives us gamers a boost! User was banned for: The Second Annual Escapist Election: Part 1: Presidential Primaries. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3923 Joined: 15 Aug 2008   | Watched the video, and I guess it turns out that gaming can drastically affect the brain.....cool... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2836 Joined: 20 Jul 2008     | Interesting, glad to know for once gaming is actually helping someone. |
Muckraker  Posts: 296 Joined: 26 Nov 2008     | Gaming is taking over the world. Seriously. First it becomes bigger than film, and now its gonna be used in hospitals? We. Win. Next, world domination! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4638 Joined: 15 Jun 2008  |
But that would require going...*gulp*....outside On topic - this is a good idea, I smiled just watching the penguins get blown up by snowballs. |
BANNED  Posts: 3780 Joined: 9 Sep 2008    | Thats why I play games: life is pain. User was banned for: We are all related? a odd little theory. (Permanent) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 428 Joined: 23 Oct 2008 | Just don't give them something like Call of Duty, it might bring up bad memories... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1151 Joined: 7 Dec 2008    | Nice! Great boost to our rep. 'eh? Glad games can be used for something so positive other then keeping me from going outside and being exposed to the horror that is UV rays. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 183 Joined: 8 Jun 2008     | Looks like a great idea, though if I may be be so bold: the music for Snow World seems like torture in itself! |
Red Guard  Posts: 3509 Joined: 18 Sep 2008   |
My wife looked at me weird, because I burst out laughing when I read that comment. On topic, I think this is great! Not just because they are using games in hospitals, but that people are really working at helping our injured veterans heal faster/be more comfortable during recovery. Well done! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4169 Joined: 6 Sep 2008 | What? Lies, games only teach children to murder and steal cars and rabblerabblegrumblegrr... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3664 Joined: 21 Jan 2008   | I;ve heard of videos doing the same thing... the idea's not new, but it's still nice to see that video games have been decided to be used in such a positive manner. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 436 Joined: 22 May 2008    | lol first they use games like AA to get ppl into the army and then they use games to help them afterwards, maybe they should joust do like the rest of us gamers and skip the in between part. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3587 Joined: 6 Aug 2008  | That's nice. Pretty cool that games can help people get through burns. |
BANNED  Posts: 2994 Joined: 16 Aug 2008   | If this works with burn wounds then all we have to do is give terrorist organisations 360's, PS3's and WII's and the war on terror will be won, mainly because they will be too busy fragging eachother.... User was banned for: Ketchup Packets... Why in the heck are they sooo small?. (Permanent) |
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Snow World Helps Soothe Soldier's Pain
How do you ease the suffering of wounded soldiers? Give them a game to play.
Snow World, originally written for children by Hunter Hoffman & David Patterson, is now being tested on soldiers suffering from burns, and the results are astounding.
Based in the Harborview Burn Center, the game, seen here, works by distracting the patient from the severe pain caused by burns. One soldier, struck by an rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, was brought from a state where "every moment was focussed on pain," to "having great fun."
Burn victims are often trapped in a cycle of pain where the nerve endings are being constantly triggered, whilst the skin forms back over the wound and stretches tight across it. This process can last months, even years. Medication can only do so much to ease the pain, so the potential for a game to be used as therapy is particularly exciting.
So who says games can't have positive benefits?
Source : Ars Technica
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