Validation of a tele-home-care for hand-telerehabilitation

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007:2007:3830-2. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353167.

Abstract

The hand rehabilitation process needs a continuous and frequent monitoring of the patient's functionality in order to test the delivered therapy and/or adapt it to the patient's progress. In order to contain costs for the rehabilitation program, a tele-homecare rehabilitation system is suitable. We have proposed a tele-home-care allowing the assessment of the hand fingers' dynamics and kinematics by integrating with a dedicated software two particular devices: the first was a commercial glove, the HumanGlove by Humanware (Pisa, Italy) and the second was a set of instruments for the measurement of the hand fingers' force comprehending an Instrumented Keyboard (IK) and an Instrumented Mouse-Like (IML) device. The platform has been successfully tested at Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS).

MeSH terms

  • Computer Graphics
  • Hand Injuries / rehabilitation*
  • Hand Strength
  • Hand*
  • Home Care Services*
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation*
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods*
  • Telemedicine*
  • User-Computer Interface