Design and development of the exercise tool with game control feature in hand rehabilitation

The hand that forms complex and versatile part of the human body, affects the active work life and daily life activities of a person as a result of any deformity. As well as the rehabilitation process that essential to return active work life requires long term and regular participation, it is not interesting for the patients. Although clinically proven therapeutic benefits of exercise programs prescribed during process, they are not practiced by most of the patients. This situation limits the contribution of exercise programs to recovery. Patients need motivation to provide regular participation in exercise programs. In this study, the effect of practicing therapeutic exercises with an exercise tool with video game control feature on patients' participation in exercise programs was examined. For this purpose, a pair game controller that capable of controlling large number of 2D games were developed and presented to patients for use, and their opinions about their experiences were taken. The motivation values of participants during the activity were above average, it was determined that the exercise programs which prescribed to the participants are not followed, amount of declared and the amount of recorded exercise were not compatible with each other. The biggest limitation of the study is that the number of participants remains low due to the completion of user research in the COVID-19 pandemic period.