Tailored Virtual Reality for Smart Physiotherapy

Postolache, Octavian; Teixeira, Luís; Cordeiro, João Rala; Lima, Maria Luísa; Arriaga, Patrí­cia; Rodrigues, Mariana Jacob; Girão, Pedro Silva

doi:10.1109/atee.2019.8724903

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“…In 5 articles, the focus is on patients with musculoskeletal shoulder problems and patients with neurological disorders (eg, stroke) [ 42 , 76 , 80 , 81 , 83 ]. In total, 27 articles do not directly name the proposed target group [ 29 , 34 , 38 , 40 , 43 , 44 , 46 , 51 , 52 , 55 - 57 , 59 , 61 , 65 - 67 , 69 , 70 , 72 , 74 , 78 , 80 , 82 , 84 - 87 ].…”

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“…In total, 34 HETs use PC displays , 11 use smartphones , and 8 use televisions as hardware for output; 6 bigger screens (>40) or projectors [ 26 , 34 , 37 , 40 , 47 , 67 ] and 3 head-mounted displays [ 26 , 46 , 60 ] are also reported. Furthermore, 6 articles do not specify the hardware [ 38 , 49 , 66 , 69 , 72 , 75 ]; however, these 6 articles describe interfaces for games that require visual control by the patient.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Health-Enabling Technologies to Assist Patients With Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders When Exercising at Home: Scoping Review

Elgert¹,

Steiner²,

Saalfeld³

et al. 2021

JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol

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Background Health-enabling technologies (HETs) are information and communication technologies that promote individual health and well-being. An important application of HETs is telerehabilitation for patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders. Currently, there is no overview of HETs that assist patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders when exercising at home. Objective This scoping review provides a broad overview of HETs that assist patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders when exercising at home. It focuses on concepts and components of HETs, exercise program strategies, development phases, and reported outcomes. Methods The search strategy used Medical Subject Headings and text words related to the terms upper extremity, exercises, and information and communication technologies. The MEDLINE, Embase, IEEE Xplore, CINAHL, PEDro, and Scopus databases were searched. Two reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts and then full texts against predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. A systematic narrative synthesis was performed. Overall, 8988 records published between 1997 and 2019 were screened. Finally, 70 articles introducing 56 HETs were included. Results Identified HETs range from simple videoconferencing systems to mobile apps with video instructions to complex sensor-based technologies. Various software, sensor hardware, and hardware for output are in use. The most common hardware for output are PC displays (in 34 HETs). Microsoft Kinect cameras in connection with related software are frequently used as sensor hardware (in 27 HETs). The identified HETs provide direct or indirect instruction, monitoring, correction, assessment, information, or a reminder to exercise. Common parameters for exercise instructions are a patient’s range of motion (in 43 HETs), starting and final position (in 32 HETs), and exercise intensity (in 20 HETs). In total, 48 HETs provide visual instructions for the exercises; 29 HETs report on telerehabilitation aspects; 34 HETs only report on prototypes; and 15 HETs are evaluated for technical feasibility, acceptance, or usability, using different assessment instruments. Efficacy or effectiveness is demonstrated for only 8 HETs. In total, 18 articles report on patients’ evaluations. An interdisciplinary contribution to the development of technologies is found in 17 HETs. Conclusions There are various HETs, ranging from simple videoconferencing systems to complex sensor-based technologies for telerehabilitation, that assist patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders when exercising at home. Most HETs are not ready for practical use. Comparability is complicated by varying prototype status, different measurement instruments, missing telerehabilitation aspects, and few efficacy studies. Consequently, choosing an HET for daily use is difficult for health care professionals and decision makers. Prototype testing, usability, and acceptance tests with the later target group under real-life conditions as well as efficacy or effectiveness studies with patient-relevant core outcomes for every promising HET are required. Furthermore, health care professionals and patients should be more involved in the product design cycle to consider relevant practical aspects.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health-Enabling Technologies to Assist Patients With Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders When Exercising at Home: Scoping Review

Elgert¹,

Steiner²,

Saalfeld³

et al. 2021

JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol

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“…VR games along with different wearable sensors by [20,[22][23][24][25] were used to develop a smart physiotherapy assistance system. [20,23] developed a glove for arm rehabilitation.…”

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“…In [22], a series of games for physiotherapy using a Kinect natural user interface and a set of Unity3D VR games was presented. A smartphone application was developed to allow physiotherapists that connect to physical therapy serious games via a remote server to access patient electronic health records, game remote configuration, and data presentation.…”

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IoT Based Smart Physiotherapy System: A Review

Saleem¹,

Zafar²,

Raza³

et al. 2022

J. Engg. Res. & Sci.

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During recent years, the increase in the ageing population, the ubiquity of chronic diseases in the world, and the development in technologies have resulted in high demand for efficient healthcare systems. Physical anomalies mostly caused by injury, disease, and ageing lead to limit the regular ability of people to move and function. Primary health care providers often refer patients to conservative regular exercises as the first stage of the remedial process. The exercises operated under trained supervision are effective, but it is not feasible to supervise each patient under the growing number of such cases. Smart Physiotherapy exercise is one of the most beneficial and need of the time. The proper and systematic execution of recommended exercises is required for effective home-based physiotherapy. This study aims at exploring recent investigations performed by researchers in this discipline and subsequently, provide a ground for new researchers to improve or bring innovation in the approach. Electronic databases were searched between 2015 and 2020 in addition the reference lists of the articles that meet the criteria were also searched. The outcome of this study indicates that there is no prolific application that automatically monitors and guides the patients in performing the right and systematic exercises advised by the physiotherapist.

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“…Motion-sensing games have characteristics of authenticity, sportiness, and interactivity. These characteristics make them extremely useful in promoting users' psychological and physical health and share effectiveness and potential in a wide range of healthcare applications [28]. From the insight of existing successful motion-sensing games products, the trend of integrating fitness and sports games with hardware was quite obvious and received a far better market performance than those leisure game types [29].…”

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Hedonic and Utilitarian Motivations of Home Motion-Sensing Game Play Behavior in China: An Empirical Study

Liu

Song

Tamura

2020

IJERPH

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As an important branch of video games and the integration of emerging motion-sensing technology, home motion-sensing games cannot only bring hedonic entertainment but also promote utilitarian benefits including exercise and social interaction for people to improve their physical and psychological health. As one of the most populous countries in the world, China has the largest number of households in the world but quite a low home game penetration rate due to the 13 year game industry winter for international enterprises. Whether Chinese customers have the intention of using motion-sensing games to improve their health status in the home environment will directly determine the commercial potential of the relevant industry in the Chinese market. In order to understand the motives of users and explore the market possibility and prospects of the game industry, this study adopts empirical research and structural equation modeling to construct a motivation model of Chinese consumers toward motion-sensing gameplay behavior in the household environment. We distributed 515 questionnaires to conduct a survey; 427 valid responses have been received, and 203 data, which meet the inclusion criteria of the required game experience, have been analyzed by SPSS25.0 and AMOS25.0. A structural equation model for the gameplay motivation has been constructed. The result shows that the three functional motivators, exercise (Path efficient = 0.40, p < 0.01), entertainment (Path efficient = 0.27, p < 0.01), and social interaction (Path efficient = 0.36, p < 0.01) of home motion-sensing games have a significantly positive impact on the user’s intention to play. Furthermore, the diversity and the time-and-place flexibility variables exert an important positive influence on the users’ gameplay behavior through their effects on the three main functional motive variables. To sum up, (1) exercise, (2) entertainment, and (3) social interaction are the main functional motivations of the Chinese consumers’ gameplay behaviors; (4) diversity and (5) time-and-place flexibility are the two main attribute motivators. The acceptance of Chinese users for home motion-sensing games remains positive and high. The motion-sensing game industry has broad market prospects in China through its potential in promoting consumer’s wellness and health in the home environment.

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Tailored Virtual Reality for Smart Physiotherapy

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Health-Enabling Technologies to Assist Patients With Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders When Exercising at Home: Scoping Review

Health-Enabling Technologies to Assist Patients With Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders When Exercising at Home: Scoping Review

IoT Based Smart Physiotherapy System: A Review

Hedonic and Utilitarian Motivations of Home Motion-Sensing Game Play Behavior in China: An Empirical Study

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