U. Hospital offers high-tech motor-skills therapy

Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 5:03 a.m.

U. Hospital offers high-tech motor-skills therapy

By patty henetz The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Feb 21, 2011 11:03PM MDT

To the uninitiated, the machine Amber Blakesley is working looks a bit like a vertical, electronic version of Whack-a-Mole.Blakesley, a therapy patient at the University of Utah clinic in Sugar House, presses buttons as fast as she can when little red lights flash on the Dynavision D2. Her occupational therapist, Marc Rosello, tracks her performance.The U. is the first medical center in the Rocky Mountain region to get the machine, intended originally to help elite athletes hone their skills...

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