A wireless-based home rehabilitation system for monitoring 3D movements

Literature review on wearable systems in upper extremity rehabilitation

“…Based on the abstracts we selected papers discussing rehabilitation technologies (at home or the clinic) and excluded papers discussing prevention, prosthetics, coaching and information/educational applications for smartphones that do not have a direct use during rehabilitation, as well as robotic system. Eventually 19 papers were selected [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. They are categorized as follows: a) Wearable posture & movement training systems that have potential in rehabilitation applications by monitoring posture and movements;…”

“…Daponte et al developed another wireless and IMU-based system [13] for monitoring movements by real-time 3D reconstruction of patient motion. Consisting of 3 parts, body area sensor network (BASN), posture reconstruction server and ROM analysis software, the system towards tracking motion for home rehabilitation and bringing movements and posture of patient on the therapist's desk.…”

“…A large number of experimental systems and even some commercial products have been developed for upper extremity training, supporting rehabilitation for several patient groups: stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy patients, etc. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] reflecting the large need for effective upper extremity rehabilitation technologies.…”

Validation of a home rehabilitation system for range of motion measurements of limb functions

“…The system presented in [11] and being under validation in this work was designed with the aim of patients' motion tracking during execution of rehabilitation exercises in home environment. It is a complete home rehabilitation system being able to bring on the therapist's desk a real-time 3D reconstruction of human posture.…”

“…A system, designed to track motion of patients undergoing rehabilitation treatment with the aim of providing ROM measurements, has been presented in [11]. It mainly relies on a Body Area Sensor Network (BASN) using wireless technology to transmit data regarding sensed motion, thereby offering the advantage of unrestrained movements over alternative methods for tracking human motion.…”