Methods and apparatuses for pre-action gaming

A non-transitory computer readable medium for improving performance of physical actions of a user's body part having an impaired physical action as a result of an acquired brain injury, comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed on a processor of a training system apparatus having at least one processor, an input device, a display device, and a robotic body part device that is attached to the user's body part having the impaired physical action, said instructions perform the steps of:

• providing to the user, on a training system, one or more visuomotor training games that that simulate a physical action of the user's body part having the impaired physical action;
• generating, by a processor of the training system, a default user-controllable virtual body part image;
• obtaining, by the processor of the training system, at least one user characteristic parameter associated with the user's body part having the impaired physical action;
• configuring, by the processor of the training system, the default user-controllable virtual body part image to the user's body part having the impaired physical action by adjusting the default user-controllable virtual body part image in accordance with the obtained user characteristic parameter to provide a configured user-controllable virtual body part image tailored to the user;
• displaying to the user, on a display device of the training system, the configured user-controllable virtual body part image;
• selecting, using an input device manipulated by a user's non-impaired body part, areas of the configured user-controllable virtual body part image;
• selecting, using the input device manipulated by the user's non-impaired body part, movement actions for directing movement of the configured user-controllable virtual body part image;
• receiving, at the processor of the training system, the selected areas of the configured user-controllable virtual body part image and the selected movement actions of the configured user-controllable virtual body part image;
• processing, by the processor of the training system, the received selected areas and the received selected actions to generate a visuomotor training game display output, wherein the visuomotor training game display output includes the selected areas of the configured user-controllable virtual body part image performing the selected movement actions;
• displaying to the user, on the display device of the training system, the visuomotor training game display output;
• and
• directing, by the processor of the training system, the robotic body part device attached to the user's impaired body part to move the user's impaired body part substantially simultaneously with the displayed visuomotor training game display output;
• whereby, when the user selects areas and movement actions of the configured user-controllable virtual body part image via inputs from the user's non-impaired body part, the instructions cause the training system to instantiate kinetic imagery of the movement actions of the user's impaired body part via the displayed visuomotor training game display output, and substantially simultaneous directs physical motion of the user's impaired body part via the robotic body part device.