Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare > Volume 15, Number 3 > Pp. 153-155

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Measurement of physical quantities in upper-limb tele-rehabilitation

Marco Rogante ^* , Montserrat Bernabeu , Hermie J Hermens , Barbara Huijgen , Stephan Ilsbroukx , Velio Macellari ^*, Riccardo Magni ^**, Fabio Magnino ^**, Sandro Scattareggia , Maria C Spitali , Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten , Mauro Zampolini  and Claudia Giacomozzi ^*

^* Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; Fundació Institut Guttmann, Barcelona, Spain; Roessingh Research and Development, Enschede, The Netherlands; National Multiple Sclerosis Centre, Melsbroek, Belgium; ^** Pragma Engineering, Perugia; Signo Motus srl Messina; ASL 3 Umbria, Trevi, Italy

Correspondence: Marco Rogante, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome 00161, Italy (Fax: +39 06 4938 7079; Email: marco.rogante{at}iss.it)

A total of 50 patients (affected by traumatic brain injury, stroke or multiple sclerosis) were treated for one month using a rehabilitation protocol. Rehabilitation could be monitored using a Portable Unit (PU) which could be installed in a patient's home allowing the measurement of kinetic and kinematic variables during exercise. In a preliminary analysis, the variables related to four rehabilitation exercises were examined for two patients at baseline and at the end of the one-month treatment. The exercises involved movement of checkers, a pencil, a jar and a key. The results suggest that, even if the overall duration of exercise execution is an important aspect of the rehabilitation process, other variables acquired by the PU might deliver useful information for assessing the patient's status. In order to integrate such variables into the assessment process, further studies are needed to investigate their eventual correlation with traditional rehabilitation scales and variables.

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