Validation of a tele-home-care for hand-telerehabilitation

Author

Giansanti, D. ; Morelli, S. ; Maccioni, G. ; Macellari, V.

Author_Institution

Ist. Superiore di Sanita, Rome

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

3830

Lastpage

3832

Abstract

The hand rehabilitation process needs a continuous and frequent monitoring of the patient´s functionality in order to test the delivered therapy and/or adapt it to the patient´s progress. In order to contain costs for the rehabilitation program, a tele-homecare rehabilitation system is suitable. We have proposed a tele-home-care allowing the assessment of the hand fingers´ dynamics and kinematics by integrating with a dedicated software two particular devices: the first was a commercial glove, the HumanGlove by Humanware (Pisa, Italy) and the second was a set of instruments for the measurement of the hand fingers´ force comprehending an Instrumented Keyboard (IK) and an Instrumented Mouse-Like (IML) device. The platform has been successfully tested at Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS),.

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical measurement; health care; home computing; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; telemedicine; HumanGlove; Humanware; hand finger dynamics; hand finger force measurement; hand finger kinematics; hand telerehabilitation process; instrumented keyboard; instrumented mouse-like device; patient functionality monitoring; tele-home-care telerehabilitation system; Costs; Fingers; Force measurement; Instruments; Kinematics; Medical treatment; Particle measurements; Patient monitoring; Software measurement; Testing; Computer Graphics; Hand; Hand Injuries; Hand Strength; Home Care Services; Humans; Monitoring, Physiologic; Telemedicine; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353167

Filename

4353167