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A Proposal of Remote Rehabilitation System for Cerebrovascular Patients Combined with Video Call Center

Authors:
Yoshitoshi Murata
Shuhei Nagasawa
Akimasa Suzuki

Keywords: rehabilitation, remote rehabilitation, motion capture, KINECT, 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. As the result, rehabilitation therapy is being shifted from hospital-care to home-care. We thus 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 for home usage to measure strain of the upper body. Measuring tools and expression formats of measured data are also introduced.

Pages: 228 to 233

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-384-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015