Type: Innovation 4 Welfare
Scope: Europeo
Object:
The chronic patients, disabled and old people have to carry out exercises regularly to keep healthy, as well as other patients with injures have to follow a rehabilitation program to recover. But the health systems are often too saturated and cannot provide the monitoring needed by the patients.
Description:
With the aim of providing the necessary assistance, the R&D project FitRehab will develop a platform to carry out physical exercise under planning and remote supervision of an expert. The platform will consist of two integrated workstations. The first will be used in hospitals by the medical staff, to program personalized exercises to each patient. The second will be used by the patients, at home, to carry out the exercises with a virtual trainer. The patient will be monitored by means of sensors placed in a t-shirt and will see themselves represented by an avatar, who will reproduce their movements in the virtual reality environment. Thus, as in a video game, the patient will perform the exercises prescribed by the doctor.
The sensorized shirt will be developed by the technology partners of the project and delivered to the health centres for testing.
Besides the movement sensors, the patient’s t-shirt will have integrated biological sensors to monitor their physiological variables, such as heart rate, temperature and respiration. The information collected by all the sensors will be sent to the hospital workstation, where medical staff will analyze it and will modify the program if needed. Thus, the patient condition always will be under medical control and supervision.