A User-Friendly Wearable Telerehabilitation System Based on Neuromotor Training for Mild Post-Stroke Patients: The DoMoMEA System
Home-based telerehabilitation technologies can support the long-term rehabilitation needs of post-stroke patients. This work describes an Android-based wearable system for telerehabilitation (DoMoMEA), which engages such patients in a full-body customized neuromotor rehabilitation protocol. DoMoMEA...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2025-01-01
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| Series: | IEEE Access |
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| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11075791/ |
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| Summary: | Home-based telerehabilitation technologies can support the long-term rehabilitation needs of post-stroke patients. This work describes an Android-based wearable system for telerehabilitation (DoMoMEA), which engages such patients in a full-body customized neuromotor rehabilitation protocol. DoMoMEA features seven inertial units and five force sensors, which capture patient’s body posture, movements, and interactions with a non-immersive virtual reality environment, providing real time scores, motivational feedback, and online automatic corrections for performance errors. Clinically relevant parameters can be collected and sent to a remote server where they can be retrieved by a physiotherapist through a dedicated web application, according to a store-and-forward telemedicine approach. Clinicians can also personalize the training settings to ensure a high level of engagement and challenge for patients, based on their residual motor abilities, needs and progress. Preliminary tests performed on 11 healthy elderly volunteers revealed a high usability of the system (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$82~\pm ~6$ </tex-math></inline-formula> points in the System Usability Scale questionnaire). Furthermore, the system was presented to experienced physiatrists and physiotherapists, who provided their assessment by a semi-structured interview. The evidence underscored the usefulness of DoMoMEA not only at home, but also in daily clinical practice. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-3536 |