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Remote Rehabilitation System for Cerebrovascular Patients Combined with Video Call Center

Authors:
Kotaro Suzuki
Yoshitoshi Murata
Kazuhiro Yoshida

Keywords: rehabilitation, remote rehabilitation, motion capture, KINECT, Balance Wii Board, standing-up and sitting-down therapy, video call center

Abstract:
Japan’s low birthrate and rapidly aging population are causing medical expenses to take up ever more of the national budget and leading to a shortage of young medical professionals. As a result, rehabilitation therapy is being shifted from hospital-care to home-care. Thus, we propose a remote rehabilitation system combined with a video call center to make up for the shortage of rehabilitation therapy done by visiting physiotherapists. In this paper, we focus on cerebrovascular patients and adopt MS-KINECT to measure strain of the upper body and the Balance Wii Board to measure weight and center of weight for home usage. A remote rehabilitation system is also introduced that includes standing-up and sitting-down therapy content.

Pages: 132 to 144

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2015. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 30, 2015

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ISSN: 1942-2660