Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2013 IEEE 3rd Portuguese Meeting in
Conference_Location :
Braga
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4859-1
DOI :
10.1109/ENBENG.2013.6518414
