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Description
The goal of this project is to assist patients to become more confident and self]reliant by providing them
with a wearable technology system that can document performance of any exercise regardless of the
level of rehabilitation.
We are creating a system called RehabBuddyh which will track individualized
limb motions for a patient being prescribed rehabilitation following a musculoskeletal injury. Currently
patients are instructed in exercise using both verbal instruction and experiential learning when
interacting with the therapist. They are then sent home with written instructions and self]report back on
how the exercises are going.
This results in two problems:
1) patients are on their own at home to perform their exercises without any re]assurances they are performing them correctly and
2) the therapist has no objective measure of how well or how often a patient is performing their exercises.
The first objective of this project is create a simple to use motion capture system using inertial measurement
units (IMUs) and a portable tablet to allow patients to perform exercises anywhere at any time while
providing real]time feedback to assure exercises are performed correctly.
The second objective is to evaluate the validity of the feedback system using state]of]the]art motion analysis laboratory to
compare exercise performance with and without feedback to validate the accuracy of the feedback
provided by the system.
The significance of the project will be to provide enhanced engineering
algorithms to allow development of simple feedback system to clinician for patient to use to document
exercise performance outside of the supervision of rehabilitation specialists.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 8/15/19 → 7/31/22 |
Funding
- National Science Foundation: $50,009.00
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