Dr. Droid: Assisting Stroke Rehabilitation Using Mobile Phones

Goodney, Andrew; Jung, Jinho; Needham, Scott A; Poduri, Sameera

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_13

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“…Some of the Smartphone applications used in stroke rehabilitation in HICs include the Dr Droid application that helps therapists to administer and track upper limb exercises for stroke rehabilitation, 20 the Think-FAST application that features stroke prevention information and a list of stroke unit locations in Australia 21 and PTX, a physiotherapy exercise application for individuals with any kind of neurological conditions that includes a pictorial description of the exercises for stroke survivors. 22 The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for long-term stroke rehabilitation also recommend the use of Smartphones for communication problems in patients with stroke.…”

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‘Care for Stroke’, a web-based, smartphone-enabled educational intervention for management of physical disabilities following stroke: feasibility in the Indian context

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IntroductionStroke rehabilitation is a process targeted towards restoration or maintenance of the physical, mental, intellectual and social abilities of an individual affected by stroke. Unlike high-income countries, the resources for stroke rehabilitation are very limited in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Provision of cost-effective, post-stroke multidisciplinary rehabilitation services for the stroke survivors therefore becomes crucial to address the unmet needs and growing magnitude of disability experienced by the stroke survivors in LMICs. In order to meet the growing need for post-stroke rehabilitation services in India, we developed a web-based Smartphone-enabled educational intervention for management of physical disabilities following a stroke.MethodsOn the basis of the findings from the rehabilitation needs assessment study, guidance from the expert group and available evidence from systematic reviews, the framework of the intervention content was designed. Web-based application designing and development by Professional application developers were subsequently undertaken.ResultsThe application is called ‘Care for Stroke’. It is a web-based educational intervention for management of physical disabilities following a stroke. This intervention is developed for use by the Stroke survivors who have any kind of rehabilitation needs to independently participate in his/her family and social roles.Discussion‘Care for stroke’ is an innovative intervention which could be tested not just for its feasibility and acceptability but also for its clinical and cost-effectiveness through rigorously designed, randomised clinical trials. It is very important to test this intervention in LMICs where the rehabilitation and information needs of the stroke survivors seem to be substantial and largely unmet.

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‘Care for Stroke’, a web-based, smartphone-enabled educational intervention for management of physical disabilities following stroke: feasibility in the Indian context

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“…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;…”

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“…Goodney et al proposed a novel system Dr. Droid [24] using mobile phones for assisting stroke rehabilitation. The system collects a motion trace by sampling the built in 3-axis accelerometer on the phone, an application is developed giving audio and visual instructions to administer the test.…”

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“…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.…”

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Literature review on wearable systems in upper extremity rehabilitation

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Chen

Markopoulos

2014

IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)

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This paper reports a structured literature survey of research in wearable technology for upper-extremity rehabilitation, e.g., after stroke, spinal cord injury, for multiple sclerosis patients or even children with cerebral palsy. A keyword based search returned 61 papers relating to this topic. Examination of the abstracts of these papers identified 19 articles describing distinct wearable systems aimed at upper extremity rehabilitation. These are classified in three categories depending on their functionality: movement and posture monitoring; monitoring and feedback systems that support rehabilitation exercises, serious games for rehabilitation training. We characterize the state of the art considering respectively the reported performance of these technologies, availability of clinical evidence, or known clinical applications.

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“…A few smartphone applications have already been developed for stroke rehabilitation. Dr. Droid [2] is an Android application that administers the Wolf Motor Function Test by giving audio and visual instructions to the patient and collecting the accelerometer data of the smartphone in the wrist. The DroidGlove [3] application uses various inertial sensors built-in the smartphone to assess the compliance of the patient to the exercises learned by visualizing a video recorded by the therapist.…”

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Gamiﬁcation of Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises Using a Smartphone

Ferreira

Guimar�ães

Santos

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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Stroke is a disabling disease that requires extensive work of rehabilitation to improve the quality of life of patients. In order to increase the compliance and motivation of the patients, stroke rehabilitation exercises have been developed in a game-like structure using a smartphone. These games were designed to promote and evaluate different movements of the upper limbs and their level of difficulty is adaptable to each patient's impairment level. The feasibility of the use of smartphone built-in inertial sensors to monitor the execution of stroke rehabilitation exercises has been assessed. The accuracy of the angles measured decreased along time and for higher angles, however the differences between real and measured angles are within acceptable limits. The usability tests in a post-stroke patient case demonstrate the applicability and motivational potential of the developed games. Gamification of stroke rehabilitation exercises using a smartphone is feasible and may be valuable for stroke rehabilitation.

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Dr. Droid: Assisting Stroke Rehabilitation Using Mobile Phones

Cited by 6 publications

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‘Care for Stroke’, a web-based, smartphone-enabled educational intervention for management of physical disabilities following stroke: feasibility in the Indian context

‘Care for Stroke’, a web-based, smartphone-enabled educational intervention for management of physical disabilities following stroke: feasibility in the Indian context

Literature review on wearable systems in upper extremity rehabilitation

Gamiﬁcation of Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises Using a Smartphone

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