Bernadette Gersh said she'd never been a gamer.

伯纳黛特.格什表示，她从不玩游戏。

Before a year straight,she played everyday.

不到一年，她每天都在打游戏。

2015, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor called a glioblastoma multiforme grade four.

2015年，我被诊断出患有多形性胶质母细胞瘤四级(一种脑瘤)。

Aggressive medication used during a clinical trial paralyzed her left arm and leg.

在一次临床试验中，她的左臂和左腿因刺激性药物瘫痪。

As a nurse, Gersh knew she had to take action quickly in order to get moving again.

作为一名护士， 格什知道她必须迅速采取行动才能再次站起来。

Everything was totally limp and flaccid on the left side.

身体左半部完全软弱无力。

She found Neoffect,a tech company that uses games to retrain the brain through physical therapy.

她创办了Neoffect科技公司，通过物理疗法利用游戏来重新训练大脑。

After six months of daily play,she regained most of the movement in her arm.

6个月的日常训练后，她的手臂恢复了大部分活动。

Neoffect CEO Scott Kim leaned on his own experience with rehab as a young child born with spina bifida.

Neoffect公司的首席执行官斯科特.金小时候患有先天性脊柱裂，他也接受过术后康复治疗。

I had a major surgery on my back,and after the surgery, I had to go through the rehabilitation process, getting up, you know,lying down, getting back and just repeat this.

我的背部做了一个大手术，手术后，我必须经历一个康复过程，起床，躺下，再起来，然后重复这个动作。

Kim said repetition is most important part of physical therapy,but it is also boring, monotonous.

斯科特.金表示，重复是物理治疗中最重要的部分,但也很无聊、单调。

To change that,Neoffect developed its flagship product,the smart glove.

为了改变这一现状， Neoffect公司开发了自己的旗舰产品一智能手套。

It sits on your hand like a light exoskeleton,filled with sensors to track movement. .

带着它，就像带了一个轻的外骨骼，它有许多传感器来跟踪人的移动。

It becomes virtual controller,so all the motions that you re making with the glove on are recognized by the software.

它变成了虚拟控制器，所以你戴着手套做的所有动作都能被该软件所识别。

Software keeps track of progress and uses artificial intelligence algorithms to encourage patients to try greater challenges as they improve.

该智能手套跟踪病情进展，并使用人工智能算法鼓励患者在病情改善时尝试更大的挑战。

Now you can say with the software,that or you gain,like three degrees on pronation and 15 degrees in, you know, supination.

现在，你可以说，用了智能手套，自己的手已经可以内翻3度，外翻15度。

Neoffect latest product is called the Neo Mono,meaning new hand.

Neoffect的最新产品名为“Neo Mono”，即“新手”。

Kim says it will actually flex a patient's fingers in cases with no movement at all.

斯科特.金表示，在完全没有移动的情况下，Neo Mono实际上可以让病人的手指弯曲。

Further using tech and video games to help patients through tough recoveries.

它们将进一步使用科技和电子游戏来帮助病人度过艰难的康复期。

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