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Gait Rehabilitation Monitor

This paper presents a simple wearable, non-intrusive affordable mobile framework that allows remote patient monitoring during gait rehabilitation by doctors and physiotherapists. The system includes a set of 2 Shimmer3 9DoF Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), an Android smartphone and a developed app for collecting, primary processing of data and for persistence of data in a remote PostgreSQL database, which is ...

IoT based model of healthcare for physiotherapy

Small and reliable devices that are used not only in clinics or hospital but also in home, give information on movements, activities or other relevant data on person health and functioning. The data acquired by these devices would increase the accessibility to healthcare services and quality of care, in a safe environment. There are scarce data related to integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies int...

Design of a Long Sleeve T-Shirt with ECG and EMG for Athletes and Rehabilitatio...

Considering the importance of strength training in sports injury prevention and rehabilitation, an e-textile system that assists the athlete’s training and rehabilita-tion was designed. This paper reports the construction of a prototype of a T-shirt with embedded textile electrodes to monitor cardiac and muscle activity. Signal tests were conducted and are presented. It is the authors’ intention to study and in...

Smart clothes for rehabilitation context: technical and technological issues

Smart clothes have the potential to improve rehabilitation processes by allowing clinicians to gather measures on patients’ functional capacity, activity level, exercise compliance, the effectiveness of treatment, and the ability of patients to perform efficiently specific motor tasks at rehabilitation centers, at home or in community settings. The chapter provides an overview of smart clothing for health monit...

Development of dry textile electrodes for electromiography: a comparison betwee...

The paper presents a practical approach concerning the design, implementation and testing of dry textile electrodes for surface electromyography purposes. Several knitted structures were designed and knitted with conductive yarns, in order to compare the influence of the fabric structure in the electrode performance. The effect of the type of conductive yarn was also studied by comparing three different yarns. ...

Perspetivas dos idosos que realizam fisioterapia sobre o efeito das tecnologias...

A tecnologia é cada vez mais uma parte integrante dos cuidados de saúde em Portugal. Contudo, ainda pouco se sabe acerca do modo como a população em geral e em particular a população idosa lida com a tecnologia em contextos de saúde. Estudar a perceção dos utentes de fisioterapia sobre a importância da existência de tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC) que contribuam para a sua participação em decisões...

Physiotherapists’ perceived knowledge on technologies for electronic health rec...

Background - In the last decade, the amount of evidence has increased indicating that stakeholders’ training and education are key to the successful adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). Also, it has been shown that the availability of technical and training support during the initial implementation is essential. Objective: We investigate the perceived knowledge of EHRs and the motivation for adoption o...

Technology use and preference among physiotherapy patients

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the information and communication technology (ICT) use and preference among physiotherapy patients.

WSN Gait Monitoring for Objective Evaluation of Rehabilitation Process

A survey of wireless sensor network solutions for gait assessment is presented including own developed solution gait assessment based on smart insoles nodes ZigBee compatible characterized by multichannel force measurement and MEMS inertial measurement IMU. The system was developed to measure ground reaction force, acceleration and direction of feet in order to provide information to physiotherapists for an obj...

Smart Walker Solutions for Physical Rehabilitation