Web-based system to support therapists in performance analysis from patients of rehabilitation-robotics

• Grant number: 13/05772-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: December 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Design
• Principal Investigator: Glauco Augusto de Paula Caurin
• Grantee: Caio Benatti Moretti
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Life expectancy is significantly growing worldwide due to technological advances associated with healthcare. However, elderly and impaired people compose the global population subset with increasing demand for rehabilitation. The current rehabilitation process, in essence, consists of repetitive exercises, entailing tiresomeness and discouragement. Robots and serious games in therapy may provide motivation and commitment to the treatment, anticipating outcomes. Its usage was recommended by American Heart Association (AHA), pointing to the highest assessment (Level A) for inpatients and outpatients. Nevertheless, the current purveyance of information related to a patient's performance is not appropriate enough to meet the current therapist's necessities. This work proposes a web-based system that provides detailed information regarding a patient's performance in order to support the therapist to properly conduct treatments. The data, native of patient's efforts, are stored in a database to be analyzed, obtaining explicit knowledge (from large amounts of data) to be displayed in a comprehensible manner. It is expected that the usage of this approach overcome subjective evaluations currently in use, allowing achieve solid fundamentals when preparing prognoses. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MORETTI, CAIO B.; JOAQUIM, RICARDO C.; CAURIN, GLAUCO A. P.; KREBS, HERMANO I.; MARTINS, JOSE, JR.; IEEE. Knowledge discovery, rehabilitation robotics, and serious games: examining training data. 2014 5TH IEEE RAS & EMBS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ROBOTICS AND BIOMECHATRONICS (BIOROB), v. N/A, p. 6-pg., 2014-01-01. (13/05772-1)