Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

In the recent years, commercial games have received attention from clinicians as potential rehabilitation tools. Most frequently, Wii/Wii Fit has been adopted and used informally in lower limb prosthetic rehabilitation facilities. Despite this, empirical data about the prevalence of its use as well as therapists' perspectives about the use of these games in practice were lacking. In this study we showed that Wii/Wii Fit games are commonly used in lower limb prosthetic rehabilitation in Canada. Most of the physical therapists and occupational therapists in Canada view the Wii/Wii Fit positively. Knowledge translation activities and developing standard treatment protocols would be helpful in minimizing the barriers for use that were identified in this study.