Telerehabilitation

The range of telemedicine applications continues to expand.  This piece describes a telerehabilitation device, designed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communications Systems (Berlin, Germany) which includes an internet connected “physio box,” a wearable mobile vital signs sensor and personalized exercise programming. First, a physiotherapists creates an exercise program for the box, which the patient takes home and hooks to a television.  The box also contains a camera which turns observed movement into a stick figure.  An on-screen avatar then leads the patient through exercises at home, while the mobile sensor records data that transmits back to the physiotherapist who can adjust the program as needed.  MORE

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