Abstract：
:This work proposes a real-time monitoring tool aimed to support clinicians for remote assessing exercise performances during home-based rehabilitation. The study relies on clinician indications to define kinematic features, that describe five motor tasks (i.e., the lateral tilt of the trunk, lifting of the arms, trunk rotation, pelvis rotation, squatting) usually adopted in the rehabilitation program for axial disorders. These features are extracted by the Kinect v2 skeleton tracking system and elaborated to return disaggregated scores, representing a measure of subjects performance. A bell-shaped function is used to rank the patient performances and to provide the scores. The proposed rehabilitation tool has been tested on 28 healthy subjects and on 29 patients suffering from different neurological and orthopedic diseases. The reliability of the study has been performed through a cross-sectional controlled design methodology, comparing algorithm scores with respect to blinded judgment provided by clinicians through filling a specific questionnaire. The use of task-specific features and the comparison between the clinical evaluation and the score provided by the instrumental approach constitute the novelty of the study. The proposed methodology is reliable for measuring subject's performance and able to discriminate between the pathological and healthy condition.
journal_name
J Biomechjournal_title
Journal of biomechanicsauthors
Capecci M,Ceravolo MG,Ferracuti F,Grugnetti M,Iarlori S,Longhi S,Romeo L,Verdini Fdoi
10.1016/j.jbiomech.2018.01.008subject
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2018-03-01 00:00:00pages
70-80eissn
0021-9290issn
1873-2380pii
S0021-9290(18)30022-8journal_volume
69pub_type
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