Rehabilitación motivacional basada en la utilización de serious games Motivational Rehabilitation using Serious Games

Research studies show that serious games help to mo tivate users in rehabilitation processes, and rehabilitation results are better when users are mo tivated. In long term rehabilitation for maintainin g capacities, the demotivation of chronic patients is common. In this work, we have implemented balance rehabilitation video game for cerebral palsy patien ts. The video game was developed using the prototy pe development paradigm and following desirable featur es for rehabilitation serious games presented in th e literature. We have tested the video game with a se t of users who abandoned therapy due to demotivatio n in the previous year. Results show that the set of use rs improved their balance and motivation .