“If you have a stroke in the United States in 2014, you’re better off if you’re a rodent than if you’re a human being,” Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist John Krakauer said when delivering his presentation “Motor Recovery After Stroke in Mice and Men” at a brain science research seminar. The rehabilitation therapies we use nowadays are medieval, he continued on to say, making it loud and clear that now, “it’s time for a revolution.”
The 47-year-old, whose medical career is nothing to be scoffed at, is ready to accept the challenge of redefining the world of physical therapy, too, with the creation of a new kind of healer equipped with a set of fins.
Krakauer, who studies movement and human obsession with movement, worked with Johns Hopkins software architects Omar Ahmad and Promit Roy as well as Baltimore artist Kat McNally to develop the video game “I Am Dolphin,” which he believes could have applications in therapy, especially for stroke victims.
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