Deans' stroke musings: EVALUATION OF KINECT JOINT TRACKING FOR CLINICAL AND IN-HOME STROKE REHABILITATION TOOLS

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Monday, December 19, 2011

EVALUATION OF KINECT JOINT TRACKING FOR CLINICAL AND IN-HOME STROKE REHABILITATION TOOLS

A thesis with a great idea, better than most derivative research I've seen.
http://netscale.cse.nd.edu/twiki/pub/Edu/KinectRehabilitation/Eval_of_Kinect_for_Rehab.pdf
After a stroke, survivors often experience a loss of coordination, balance, and mobility that can be regained through physical therapy that includes range-of-motion, coordination, and balance exercises. The Microsoft Kinect’s ability to track joint positions could prove useful as a tool for stroke rehabilitation, both in a clinical setting and as a tool to aid stroke survivors in their exercises at home. In this study I explored the potential and limitations of the Kinect in application to stroke rehabilitation. I evaluated tools that could be used for developing stroke applications for the Kinect. I also gathered data to determine the sampling rate and consistency of joint data under varying testing conditions to determine what the Kinect could contribute to stroke rehabilitation.