National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) to Offer Virtual Reality Technology for Troops

Colleagues,

... Cutting-edge virtual reality medical technology, the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) system, will soon be available for patients at the new National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), which will hold its ribbon cutting ceremony next Thursday, June 24, in Bethesda, Maryland ...

... CAREN allows patients to work through a variety of skills after experiencing traumatic injuries, with the focus on promoting resilience and recovery. Troops returning from war are able to work through post-traumatic stress symptoms through a very carefully monitored virtual environment...

... The CAREN system contains an instrumented treadmill embedded into a six degree-of-freedom motion platform that synchronizes in real-time with a virtual environment projected onto a large, curved screen ...

... The CAREN system was developed by Motek Medical and Polycom Telemedicine Solutions, video and voice communication solutions companies. They donated the estimated $500,000 machine to NICoE, making it one of five machines available in the entire world...

Read on at: http://www.dcoe.health.mil/blog/article.aspx?ID=1&postID=110

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