StrokeBack Project (FP7-ICT-2011-7)
Published July 2, 2014 | Version v1
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Rehabilitation System for Stroke Patients using Mixed-Reality and Immersive User Interfaces

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  • 1. Research for Science, Art and Technology (RFSAT)
  • 2. Intracom S. A. Telecom Solutions

Description

The work presented in this paper addresses stroke, a disease costing the healthcare in Europe and USA over 3% of their entire healthcare expenditure, including inpatient treatments, outpatient hospital visits and long-term rehabilitation and care. The StrokeBack project is a response to those needs offering an effective long-term care and rehabilitation strategy for stroke patients, which would actively involve patients in the rehabilitation process while minimizing costly human support. The game-based training system has been proposed allowing physicians to supervise the rehabilitation of patents at home. The proposed approach empowers patients and their caretakers to execute effectively rehabilitation protocols in their home settings, while leading physicians are able to monitor the rehabilitation progress remotely via Personal Health Record (PHR) system. The increased rehabilitation speed and ability to perform training at home directly improves quality of life of patients

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