Abstract
The traditional postoperative rehabilitation training mode of lower limbs is mostly confined to hospitals or nursing sites. With the increase of postoperative patients, the current shortage of medical resources is obviously not satisfactory, and the medical costs are high, thus it is difficult to apply widely. A new mobile phone application (app) based on plantar pressure analysis is developed to fulfill the requirements of remote postoperative rehabilitation. It is designed, implemented, tested, and used for pilot experiment in conjunction with the system design methodology of the waterfall model. Preliminary testing and a pilot experiment showed that the app has realized basic functions and can achieve patient rehabilitation out of hospitals. The development of the app can shorten the hospitalization time of patients, reduce medical costs, and make up for the current shortage of medical resources. In the future, more experiments will be done to verify the effectiveness of the app.
Highlights
Rehabilitation training is important to patients who have undergone lower limb surgery, which can speed up the recovery of limb function, greatly reduce the rehabilitation process, and effectively prevent the occurrence of postoperative complications [1,2]
To make patients recover sooner from the hospital, a gait rehabilitation robot assisted training with some quantitatively detected sensor data is the most commonly used training method at present [22,23], but it is mainly applicable to recover in the hospital without a precise and objective evaluation method of training effect [24,25]
Combined with the ‘medical + internet’ model, an app based on plantar pressure analysis is introduced, which can obtain the doctor’s training plan via the internet and transmit it to the plantar pressure testing device
Summary
Rehabilitation training is important to patients who have undergone lower limb surgery, which can speed up the recovery of limb function, greatly reduce the rehabilitation process, and effectively prevent the occurrence of postoperative complications [1,2]. By using the plantar pressure with current telemedicine, some some rehabilitation processes in the hospital can be transferred to communities or families by setting rehabilitation processes in the hospital can be transferred to communities or families by setting up a up a powerful information database. It can improve medical efficiency and reduce powerful information database.
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
