COSTELLO: Doctors in one hospital are using video games to help kids overcome pain. But this isn't quite like Super Mario Brothers. Here's today's technology on the front lines.</s>COSTELLO: Paige Plotkin is doing some high-tech rehab. Interactive video games are just one of several innovative techniques being used at the newly opened pain medicine care complex at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington.</s>DR. SARAH BERSTOCK, CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: This is where we engage video and game technology.</s>COSTELLO: Plotkin was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome when she was a freshman in high school. Games like this are engineered to target different areas of the patient's body while distracting them from discomfort.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How do you feel as you do this? (inaudible).</s>COSTELLO: And while Paige cautious herself, the system is providing real-time seat back over physical therapists who can adjust treatment on the fly.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're going to have to lean on that, put it back and forth?</s>COSTELLO: The game room isn't the only techie twist you'll find at this facility. There's no more waiting room. Here at the Dub, their learning oasis is complete with touch screen computers.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But that helps you relax.</s>ROMANS: And patients rest in a pot bed that measures biofeedback; life change along with body temperature. And they're going roam up there but it could be added to help them cope with pain and stress as they flee.</s>BERSTOCK: We hope over time, we will develop more games and more technology that allow us to keep moving forward in this area.
Video Games that Help Heal Pain