Envisaging the Future of Home Rehabilitation

Research Article

Rehabilitative TeleHealthCare for post-Stroke Outcome Assessment

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246141,
        author={Gabriela Postolache and Claudia Maia Moura and Pedro Silva Gir\"{a}o and Octavian Postolache},
        title={Rehabilitative TeleHealthCare for post-Stroke Outcome Assessment},
        proceedings={Envisaging the Future of Home Rehabilitation},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={EFHR},
        year={2012},
        month={4},
        keywords={RFID technology FMCV Doppler radar vital signs activity of daily living pervasive computing stroke rehabilitation},
        doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246141}
    }
    
  • Gabriela Postolache
    Claudia Maia Moura
    Pedro Silva Girão
    Octavian Postolache
    Year: 2012
    Rehabilitative TeleHealthCare for post-Stroke Outcome Assessment
    EFHR
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246141
Gabriela Postolache1,2,*, Claudia Maia Moura2, Pedro Silva Girão3, Octavian Postolache1
  • 1: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2: Universidade Atlântica, Oeiras, Portugal
  • 3: Instituto de Telecomunicações/DEEC, IST, Lisbon, Portugal
*Contact email: gabrielap@uatlantica.pt

Abstract

The article summarizes ongoing research on intelligent Tele-rehabilitation Assistants for in home rehabilitation of post stroke patients. The designed system is expressed by a set of smart sensors including a microwave FMCW Doppler radar that are connected to an embedded computing platform based on digital signal processor (DSP). This platform assures advanced data processing and wireless data transmission to a human machine interface (HMI) Android OS compatible device expressed by a tablet or by a smart phone as part of a health care intelligent ambient. The information from the health status and motor activity smart sensors is added to the patient localization given by a radar RFID device. Additionally, well-established neuronrehabilitation instruments are used to evaluate the results obtained by the proposed architecture implemented in a ubiquitous and pervasive manner.