Barmpoutis Angelos, Alzate Jose, Beekhuizen Samantha, Delgado Horacio, Donaldson Preston, Hall Andrew, Lago Charlie, Vidal Kevin, Fox Emily J
Digital Worlds Institute, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2016;220:33-8.
In this paper a prototype system is presented for home-based physical tele-therapy using a wearable device for haptic feedback. The haptic feedback is generated as a sequence of vibratory cues from 8 vibrator motors equally spaced along an elastic wearable band. The motors guide the patients' movement as they perform a prescribed exercise routine in a way that replaces the physical therapists' haptic guidance in an unsupervised or remotely supervised home-based therapy session. A pilot study of 25 human subjects was performed that focused on: a) testing the capability of the system to guide the users in arbitrary motion paths in the space and b) comparing the motion of the users during typical physical therapy exercises with and without haptic-based guidance. The results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed system.
本文介绍了一种基于家庭的物理远程治疗原型系统，该系统使用可穿戴设备提供触觉反馈。触觉反馈由沿着弹性可穿戴带等距分布的8个振动电机产生的一系列振动提示组成。当患者在规定的锻炼程序中执行动作时，这些电机以一种在无监督或远程监督的家庭治疗环节中替代物理治疗师触觉引导的方式来引导患者的动作。对25名受试者进行了一项初步研究，该研究重点关注：a）测试系统在空间中引导用户沿任意运动路径运动的能力；b）比较在有和没有基于触觉的引导的情况下，用户在典型物理治疗锻炼期间的运动情况。结果证明了所提出系统的有效性。
