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, and you have to reach up and pop a balloon as you're walking. When you're immersed in the program you forget about your pain and patients will absolutely reach higher, because we have the objective data. If you do things with them in the gym and you just say, “Okay, I want you to walk your fingers up the wall”, which is a common exercise, they don't get very far, but if you put them in this machine and they're walking and they sort of forget, and there is a balloon coming and they reach for it, then they go much farther. We have markers on their joint, so we can measure their shoulder and the range of motion moved.
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