Using interactive computer play in physical therapy and occupational therapy clinical practice: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This study explored the extent to which an interactive computer play system, Bootle Blast, supports motor learning in a clinical context and examined clinicians' perceptions of their therapeutic role in the system's use as an intervention tool.

Methods

In this observational sequential explanatory mixed methods study, five children with cerebral palsy [mean age 9.4 years (SD, 0.5), Gross Motor Function Classification System Levels I-III] used Bootle Blast during a single video-recorded therapy session with their treating clinicians (physical therapists, occupational therapists, and therapy assistants). Children played one Bootle Blast mini game independently (without clinician involvement) before clinicians carried out therapy sessions with the game as per usual

SUBMITTER: Petrevska M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11451436 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature