Research Article
Hipperbox: A portable toolbox for rehabilitation from a hip surgery using sensors
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.16-5-2016.2263732, author={Ahmed Nait Aicha and Sven Haitjema and Pascal Wiggers}, title={Hipperbox: A portable toolbox for rehabilitation from a hip surgery using sensors}, proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2016}, month={6}, keywords={rehabilitation hip surgery sensor monitoring}, doi={10.4108/eai.16-5-2016.2263732} }- Ahmed Nait Aicha
Sven Haitjema
Pascal Wiggers
Year: 2016
Hipperbox: A portable toolbox for rehabilitation from a hip surgery using sensors
PERVASIVEHEALTH
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.16-5-2016.2263732
Abstract
Since the rehabilitation process after a hip surgery is increasingly performed at home, professional caregivers experience a lack of insight in the rehabilitation of their patients. In this demo we present a portable sensor system for remote monitoring, consisting of both wearable and ambient sensors and a gateway with 4G for transmission of the data to the server. The collected sensor data is processed and analyzed to provide information about how active the patient is and which activities of daily living he is performing. The system gives insights in the progress of the rehabilitation to both the therapist and the patient. During the first pilot, ten patients and five therapists have tested the first release of the rehabilitation sensor system. They experienced that the sensor system can be used effortless, facilitates the dialogue between the patient and the therapist and can support the self-management of the patient.
