Abstract
Rehabilitation engineering, as one of the active research areas in biomedical science, needs further investigations and improvements. The process of rehabilitation, whether after a stroke, ligament, or accident-related injuries, is commonly based on clinical assessment tools, which can be executed, either by self-reported (home-based) treatment or through observer-rated therapy. However, people with reduced mobility (e.g., stroke, surgical, and ligament patients) can benefit from rehabilitation programs only if effective and appropriate assistive tools are provided. In this paper, a new internet of things (IoT)-based telemonitoring system is introduced for knee injuries’ rehabilitation (Knee-Rehab). The proposed system is a real-time rehabilitation and monitoring framework designed to be a portable, home-based, and online-based instrument comprised of bio-mechanical, bio-instrumentation and IoT-based elements. The system helps patients to rest at home after surgeries or physical treatment, do their rehab-exercises, and receive suggestions form their advisors, which gain the ability to monitor the situation over the exercising time and propose necessary medication/activities to be followed by the patients accordingly, based on their current status. The experimental measurements show the high accuracy achieved by the developed system in terms of monitored knee joint angle, where the maximum error is 3.5° compared to manual goniometer measurements.
Highlights
The purpose of rehabilitation is to restore back the normal physical movement of any part of the human body that has been lost due to a stroke or any accident-related injury [1], [2]
The process depends on using clinical assessment tools and can be done either as a home-based self-treatment or through an observer-rated method at the rehabilitation center [3]
In this paper, we have developed an Internet of Things (IoT)-based knee rehabilitation and monitoring system that benefits patients to recover from consequences of various knee injuries
Summary
The purpose of rehabilitation is to restore back the normal physical movement of any part of the human body that has been lost due to a stroke or any accident-related injury [1], [2]. In [17], a mobile application is developed by Gay et al, as a monitoring method that keeps tracking of the patient's progress, reports the current status of the rehabilitation process to the health professional, and provides patients with immediate feedback The inconvenience of this platform is that the patient/user needs an actual description of the pain amount based on feeling. (e) and (f) Show basic sketches of all the sides, along with measurements of all the details included The design attributes, such as size, length, and width of the frame, are taken based on appropriate dimensions to facilitate activities of knee rehabilitation. Thinkspeak platform has been used for online data monitoring in the proposed system
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