The New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark is conducting a five-year study of how video games could help treat and rehabilitate cerebral palsy patients.

The $4.75 million grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research starts next year at the Children's Specialized Hospital in Mountainside.

The idea is to make rehab more productive and cost-effective. The games developed for the study are controlled with gloves that can sense movement and even have force-feedback.

Scientists think video games may provide therapeutic breakthroughs [North Jersey Media Group]

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