Many of the more advanced technological devices that they use during PT and OT have settings that give you instant feedback or in the very least after you have completed the exercise will give you basic stats on how you did. There is the robotic arm that tells you how much help the machine gave you, how jerky or smooth your movements are and then there is the LokoMat...
This machine has some cool bar graphs that tell you much of your body weight was supported during your walk (they actually make you lighter!), how much you are moving your limbs or how much the machine is doing but the part I like is a simple smiley face. The more effort you put into the walking the more smiley he gets. If you stop helping he full on frowns at you. It is truly awesome how simple and yet how effective the smiley is in giving feedback.
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