ACCEPT - Adaptive Climbing for CErebral Palsy Training
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Start date: 2020-03-01
Length: 19 months
Project abstract
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most frequent pediatric neruomuscular disorder. Children with CP can, in many cases, partly recover their neuromotor skills through intensive rehabilitation.
As recently demonstrated, adapted sport constitutes a valid complement to standard rehabilitation. It is highly engaging, potentially leading to results otherwise obtained over a much longer time.
Starting from this evidence and in partnership with FightTheStroke, the project focusses on sport climbing with the objective of studying, realizing and testing a prototype of an adapted, sensorized, and reconfigurable wall - ACCEPT - designed for the rehabilitation of children between 6 and 13 year old. The research aims at exploring and promoting the role of sport climbing as a therapeutic tool, proposing a solution that is at once training, inclusion, and a means of tracking rehabilitation progresses.
As recently demonstrated, adapted sport constitutes a valid complement to standard rehabilitation. It is highly engaging, potentially leading to results otherwise obtained over a much longer time.
Starting from this evidence and in partnership with FightTheStroke, the project focusses on sport climbing with the objective of studying, realizing and testing a prototype of an adapted, sensorized, and reconfigurable wall - ACCEPT - designed for the rehabilitation of children between 6 and 13 year old. The research aims at exploring and promoting the role of sport climbing as a therapeutic tool, proposing a solution that is at once training, inclusion, and a means of tracking rehabilitation progresses.
