As if the Wii needed anymore positive publicity.

A CBS affiliate in Minneapolis reports that a local rehab institution located in the area's Abbott Northwestern Hospital is using Wiis to help rehabilitate stroke victims.

WCCO spoke to Jerry Pope, a 77-year-old who suffered a stroke in June. "Not only am I moving the hand, my feet are moving, I am jumping around, it is as if I am really playing the game," Pope told the station. "It is motivational, makes you feel like you are progressing, even if you are not and that helps you." Pope, incidentally, was once a semi-professional tennis player.

The program is being tested at a few rehab facilities across the country, to largely positive results. Says Matthew White, an occupational therapist who works with Pope, "We are using the Nintendo Wii system as a way to practice re-learning movements we used to know how to do and we know the brain can make changes if we can give it lots and lots of practice."