Development of a system for monitoring and tracking of physiotherapeutic movements in patients with neurological diseases

Author

Martins, T. ; Carvalho, V. ; Soares, Filomena

Author_Institution

Centre Algoritmi, Univ. of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Recent research studies has shown the great contribution that serious games offer in the area of biomedical rehabilitation of injured persons. Following this trend, we intend to develop a friendly software application for monitoring the physical therapy movements of patients suffering from severe motor disabilities. The correctness of the rehabilitation exercises is verified by applying image processing techniques.

Keywords

biomechanics; diseases; injuries; medical image processing; neurophysiology; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; patient treatment; tracking; biomedical rehabilitation; friendly software application; games; image processing techniques; injury; motor disabilities; neurological diseases; physical therapy movement; physiotherapeutic movement monitoring; physiotherapeutic movement tracking; rehabilitation exercises; system development; Biological system modeling; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Diseases; Monitoring; application for rehabilitation; image processing techniques; neurological diseases; physical disabilities; physical therapy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2013 IEEE 3rd Portuguese Meeting in

Conference_Location

Braga

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4859-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENBENG.2013.6518414

Filename

6518414