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Caroline Codillo
Mrs. DeBock
English 4 Honors
March 16th, 2015
Technology and Therapy
Many scheduled therapies are becoming more evolved into technology with their studies
than ever. Technology is the innovation towards rehabilitating patients in the littlest time needed.
Patients are being shaped by the advanced technology towards their results with no inaccuracy.
The assistance to therapy has improved from not just during a session but from your own home.
Revolution of the new and improved technology for physical therapy is benefitting patients
across the nation with accurate solutions. Therapy in general is innovating with pristine and
advanced technology for hearing impaired children, people who need balance stability, and for
future educational therapy purposes.
Children who are hearing impaired are patients who need extra comfort and ease when
going to therapy programs which might seem frightening. With the help of the program called,
Ihear Internet Therapy Program, these children can be tranquil about coming to an enhanced
program for them to enjoy while attending (Broekelmann). This type of program gives these
children an interactive, effective therapy for all of them to benefit from St. Joseph Institute for
the Deaf (SJI). These developers gave an outlook towards these children to give them courage
and aspiration for their inhibited causes. According to Broekelmann, high quality connection
towards each individual child is priceless to try and help with their main stream cause of their
hearing loss. The best practice is given to these children with the program for great resolutions in

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the end. While putting the children in real life scenarios, he/she is given a natural environment
in which they can be practice their hearing skills to anything that surrounds them (Brokelmann).
This gives the family and especially the children benefits to implement towards their future to
overcome the impaired hearing. Many specialist bestow this program to be a positive
development skill to ensure hearing impaired children across the nation.
Technology advancement pushes towards therapy by movement monitors to establish
treatment and rehabilitation in a precise amount of time. Body-worn monitors are created for
patients to have incredible, brief feedback in half the time. This cotemporary technology is
extremely inexpensive and wireless to connect to any smart device. With this type of
advancement, movement monitoring systems are becoming more popular throughout the United
States. Precise judgement and monitoring can be recorded on this monitor to calculate the
patients skills in their daily lives. Therapy can be monitored and focused upon physical reasons
that tend to have difficulty on their lives like balancing or walking through their house (Horark
and Mancini). Conferring to Horak and Mancini, the monitors were created as an innovation to
benefit therapy in general to provide immediate feedback to enhance patients abilities to
tremendous heights. For the future, patients can use this type of development at home so
therapists can monitor their daily life style to specifically point out what needs to be cured for
their treatment. Therapeutic exercises with this founding technology will result in advancement
for the future and for their patients at home.
Musculoskeletal injuries are founded to be a monotonous topic for students to endure
while studying to become a physical therapist. When patients are approached for therapy in this
situation, there can be treacherous risks if not handled with patented care. According to Johnston,
advancement has accumulated over time to visual online interactions with scenarios to augment

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students abilities with impeccable technique and expertise. This program called SBLi is
supported for the students to give them self-assurance towards any musculoskeletal injuries in
their future. With this method, The University of Queensland have attempted this SBLi program
for their third year undergraduates and first year graduate-entry masters (GEM) (Johnston). As a
result, Venerina Johnston was pleased with the students that came back with confidentiality in
their practical skills in assessment. Awareness for safety regulations are prior to the course to
have practical skill assessments at hand. With these online scenarios, every students results came
back with successful improvement to be processed for future new comers. The students were
fully satisfied with confidence to take on this type of procedure with all of their knowledge they
have learned from the SBLi. The innovation for technology to learn more on therapeutic exercise
are increasing and spreading from colleges and universities.
Improvement in technology for therapy is improved by benefitting hearing-impaired
children, people who are obligated for stability in balance structure, and for the eventual
purposes towards therapy in colleges/universities. Being hearing impaired can be ensured with
interactive therapy without discomfort in the therapy field. Body motion monitors are to be seen
as an inspiring modernization for therapists to interact with their patients virtually for the future.
Students in colleges are approached with a successful program to help them be confident, benign,
and intelligent with their knowledge to become a Physical Therapist. With a variety of
technology, therapy is evolving to become considerable and manageable to their patients with
higher expectations.

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Work Cited
Broekelmann, Cheryl. "Ihear[R] Internet Therapy Program: A Program By St. Joseph Institute
For The Deaf." Volta Review 112.3 (2012): 417-422. ERIC. Web. 13 Mar. 2015.
Horak, Fay, Laurie King, and Martina Mancini. "Role Of Body-Worn Movement Monitor
Technology For Balance And Gait Rehabilitation." Physical Therapy 95.3 (2015): 461470. Academic Search Complete. Web. 12 Mar. 2015.
Johnston, Venerina, et al. "Using Technology To Enhance Physical Therapy Students' ProblemSolving Skills Around Safe Patient Handling." Physical Therapy Reviews 18.6 (2013):
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Advanced Placement Source. Web. 11 Mar. 2015.