'It's fun and it's helping me to get better': How virtual re

'It's fun and it's helping me to get better': How virtual reality therapy is helping brain, spinal cord injured patients heal


Rich Reeve
Created: July 08, 2021 11:42 PM
In a therapy room at Allina Health's Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, Jeff Voltin was working up a sweat.
"Just trying to exercise and get stronger," he said. "Most of my therapy is, you know, doing repetitions of stuff."
But Voltin, 56, from Ramsey, is no ordinary therapy patient.
You could call him a ninja warrior, using virtual reality games to rehab his body, partially paralyzed from the neck down.
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"The game that I've been playing is called 'fruit ninja,'" Voltin said, smiling. "It gives me a chance to just kind of play and have fun, and use the muscles that hopefully I don't use as regularly as when I'm just doing exercises."

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