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Virtual Reality Laboratory

The Ottawa Hospital and the Canadian Military has joined forces to offer physical and mental rehabilitation for patients. This partnership will bring a ground breaking virtual reality laboratory to The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre.

The Rehabilitation Virtual Reality Laboratory is:

• State of the art tool to rehabilitate patients with difficulties in areas such as balance, coordination and post traumatic stress disorder
• A moveable patient platform with a wraparound floor to ceiling video screen and a computer system allows therapists to measure and study the patient’s responses to the changing environments
• An interactive virtual environment that completely immerses the patient

What are the benefits?

• By being immersed in a virtual environment, patients are distracted from their pain, as they learn to walk again or regain their balance
• Wounded soldiers from across Eastern Canada will have access to cutting edge rehabilitation
• The system enables a collective approach between rehabilitation experts, orthopedics, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, neurologists, mental health and research
• The system will increase the efficiency in therapeutic programs, facilitating faster integration back into the community
• This system will allow therapists to create environments that are not currently possible in other rehabilitation settings in Canada