Step Well - The exercises undergone by patients during therapy are strenuous because of their ailment. And exercise kind of becomes a terror for the patient may it be a child or an adult. These exercises can be done much more interesting by adding play value to it, such that it becomes more of a leisure activity, thus simultaneously catering to the physiotherapeutic aspect, thus helping the patient recoup from his aliment.
Step well is a game developed to be used by physiotherapeutic patients for finger coordination exercises. The game can be played between two patients or a patient & doctor. The fingers basically act as pawns & one has to move them above & below the staircase with respect to the number shown on the dice. The stairs have special spaces, which indicates whether a player needs to go up a stair, down a stair etc. The game also has weights of 5- 25 gm & when a player lands at a pick a card space, they have to pick up a card which would instruct them to pick a weight by a specific combination of finger(fore-thumb combination etc). The patient has to pick the weight & place on the stair. The winner would who reaches the finish point first. The base of the stairs have velcro attached to it, so the doctor can change the layout of the game board according to the patient progress level.