Remote Monitoring of Physical Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients Using IoT and Virtual Reality

The statistics highlights that physical rehabilitation are required nowadays by increased number of people that are affected by motor impairments caused by accidents or aging. Among the most common causes of disability in adults are strokes or cerebral palsy. To reduce the costs preserving the quali...

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Published in:IEEE journal on selected areas in communications 2021-02, Vol.39 (2), p.562-573
Main Authors: Postolache, Octavian, Hemanth, D. Jude, Alexandre, Ricardo, Gupta, Deepak, Geman, Oana, Khanna, Ashish
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical monitoring
Computer & video games
Educational software
Games
Internet of Things
Medical services
Physical rehabilitation
Physical therapy
Physical training
Physicians
Rehabilitation
Remote monitoring
Telemedicine
Training
Virtual reality
virtual reality serious games
Wearable sensors
wearable smart sensors
Wearable technology
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Summary:The statistics highlights that physical rehabilitation are required nowadays by increased number of people that are affected by motor impairments caused by accidents or aging. Among the most common causes of disability in adults are strokes or cerebral palsy. To reduce the costs preserving the quality of services new solutions based on current technologies in the area of physiotherapy are emerging. The remote monitoring of physical training sessions could facilitate for physicians and physical therapists' information about training outcome that may be useful to personalize the exercises helping the patients to achieve better rehabilitation results in short period of time process. This research work aims to apply physical rehabilitation monitoring combining Virtual Reality serious games and Wearable Sensor Network to improve the patient engagement during physical rehabilitation and evaluate their evolution. Serious games based on different scenarios of Virtual Reality, allows a patient with motor difficulties to perform exercises in a highly interactive and non-intrusive way, using a set of wearable devices, contributing to their motivational process of rehabilitation. The system implementation, system validation and experimental results are included in the paper.
ISSN:0733-8716
1558-0008
DOI:10.1109/JSAC.2020.3020600