National Defence committee  One of the great things about the system is it gives them confidence. What we would do in a case like that is show them the results. We could say, “Look, you actually raised your arm 120 degrees”, or whatever. Then we'd give them a series of exercises, a series of tasks to do at

National Defence committee  Four countries.

National Defence committee  Yes, absolutely. In fact, there is a CAREN conference going on out west right now that Sean is going to go to tonight. We hope he'll be able to get out. Yes, we share. Israel was great sharing with us. When we went there, they gave us all their protocols. We were so much farther

National Defence committee  Sure, with pleasure. When you have a brain injury, whether it comes about through illness, if there's a brain tumour, if there's a space-occupying lesion, depending on what area is affected.... It could be that a certain area is affected because of, as I said, some sort of an il

National Defence committee  Well, we're certainly learning as we're using it. We like to listen to the patients on what their needs are. They help us to determine what programs we have to develop. It's based on the feedback we get from them. Certainly if you have a Wii machine, it's the same idea. You're i

National Defence committee  There are other variations of this machine, but what's called the CAREN, the extended system, as I said, is only in four countries: Canada, the U.S., the Netherlands, and Israel.

National Defence committee  As far as owning this technology is concerned, the firm that sells it is Motek Medical from the Netherlands, but the components are outsourced from different areas across Canada and the United States. The cameras may come from the United States and the treadmill from other places

National Defence committee  No.

National Defence committee  It would depend on what you wanted to measure.

National Defence committee  Yes, actually with vestibular therapy, absolutely. You can cause the platform to perturb, to move in different directions, and depending upon what you're working on you can have the screen with different images. Definitely it could be used for people with vestibular problems. W

National Defence committee  It depends on what the symptoms are or what the deficits with the patients are. Someone with a mild injury may have memory problems. They may have visual field problems. They may have neglect. Some of our patients, depending on where the brain injury is, may forget about one side

National Defence committee  With complex regional pain, for instance, in the shoulder, you have probably heard that people have frozen shoulders. Because of the pain you're not using your arm, and the more you don't use it, the weaker it gets. With this program there is one program where there are balloons,

National Defence committee  The majority of our patients do have physical injuries. That's why they're at the rehab centre. Colonel Jetly, I believe is his name, is a psychiatrist with the military, and he has submitted a project to us to work with patients from the military with PTSD who don't necessarily

National Defence committee  Absolutely. With our brain injury population, we have been working towards that, and Colonel Jetly's study will take it forward.

National Defence committee  Yes.