Abstract
The terms of telemedicine, telerehabilitation, and e-care have come into our everyday lives as the necessity to make medical assistance and care more effective. These terms are not buzzwords. Indeed, new technology, innovative solutions, offered by programming tools, modern sensor equipment, wearable devices and bio-signal data sets, provide an ability to ensure necessary remote support to a person with special needs anytime and anywhere. This assistance may include person’s online health monitoring, telerehabilitation and health improvement measures, mobile training, rapid alert button initiation, advisory support, and a set of many other measures supporting patient’s care. This paper displays achievements in creation of vestibular telerehabilitation tools and systems, particularly in Latvia, and discuss further necessary developments, including eye-tracking instruments, which would improve existing telerehabilitation systems.
Highlights
Ever new technologies are entering in today's rapidly changing world
Herdman points out three main human body systems which are responsible for postural balance control
In order to promote early diagnosis of postural balance and improvement of these functional capabilities, from November 2014 to June 2018 the postural balance function measurement and improvement system model has been developed by researchers of Riga Technical University (RTU) within the framework of the Project No.2 „Development, approbation and implementation of new prototypes and innovative methodology in social rehabilitation for the rendering of new services” (in Latvian: „Jaunu prototipu, inovatīvas metodikas sociālajā rehabilitācijā izstrāde, aprobācija un ieviešana jaunu pakalpojumu sniegšanai”) of the Latvian National Research Program “Innovative solutions in social rehabilitation in Latvian schools in the context of inclusive education” [6]
Summary
Ever new technologies are entering in today's rapidly changing world. Nowadays, people are talking about e-health, e-medicine and e-care, and are actively involved in the opportunities and activities offered by these new systems and platforms. Telemedicine or telerehabilitation system developers ought to take into account prospective system users interests and needs, as well ensure system reliability and sustainability [2] Such e-, m-, and/or t- rehabilitation platforms ought to be aimed to improve life quality for people with special needs, facilitate rehabilitation process anytime anywhere and provide necessary online support to the system users. Considering that “the balance is one of the most important skills of the postural control and ability to move” [3], it might be said that persons’ active involvement in the vestibular telerehabilitation activities can improve life quality of these people. Herdman points out three main human body systems which are responsible for postural balance control. They are: visual, vestibular and somatosensory ones [4]. Eye-tracking tools might be added to this system, providing necessary analysis of the gaze data to be used to improve patients’ telerehabilitation efficiency
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