eFisioTrack: a telerehabilitation environment based on motion recognition using accelerometry

Daniel Ruiz-Fernandez, Oscar Marín-Alonso, Antonio Soriano-Paya, Joaquin D García-Pérez, Daniel Ruiz-Fernandez, Oscar Marín-Alonso, Antonio Soriano-Paya, Joaquin D García-Pérez

Abstract

The growing demand for physical rehabilitation processes can result in the rising of costs and waiting lists, becoming a threat to healthcare services' sustainability. Telerehabilitation solutions can help in this issue by discharging patients from points of care while improving their adherence to treatment. Sensing devices are used to collect data so that the physiotherapists can monitor and evaluate the patients' activity in the scheduled sessions. This paper presents a software platform that aims to meet the needs of the rehabilitation experts and the patients along a physical rehabilitation plan, allowing its use in outpatient scenarios. It is meant to be low-cost and easy-to-use, improving patients and experts experience. We show the satisfactory results already obtained from its use, in terms of the accuracy evaluating the exercises, and the degree of users' acceptance. We conclude that this platform is suitable and technically feasible to carry out rehabilitation plans outside the point of care.

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Population aging prospects of the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Available online: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm (last accessed on 10 March 2013).
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Flow diagram of rehabilitation attention processes. On the left, patient's 1st examination and on the right, patient's improvements supervision.
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Flow diagram of rehabilitation attention processes using eFisioTrack. On the left, patient's 1st examination and on the right, patient's improvements supervision.
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Scheme of eFisioTrack's software components and where they are used.
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Physiotherapist options menu of the application.
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Exercises performed using eFisioTrack whose results are included in this work. From left to right: free active shoulder flexion, free active shoulder abduction, leg extension, and free horizontal shoulder adduction.

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