http://jcis.sbrt.org.br/index.php/JCIS/article/viewFile/101/272
Abstract
—Hemiparesis is the most disabling condition aftera stroke. Hemiparetic individuals suffer from a loss of muscle
strength on one side of the body, resulting in a decreased
capacity of performing movements. To assess the quality of
Physiotherapy treatment, rating scales are commonly used but
with the shortcoming of being subjective. With the aim of
developing a system that objectively outcomes how a hemiparetic
individual is responding to a Physiotherapy treatment, this paper
proposes a method to analyze human functional movement by
means of an apparatus comprised of multiple low-cost RGB-D
cameras. After extrinsically calibrating the cameras, the setup
system should be able to build a composite skeleton of the target
patient, to globally analyze patient’s movement according to a
reachable workspace and specific energy. These latter both a
reproposed to be carried out by tracking the hand movements of
the patient, and the movement volume produced. Here we present
the concept of the proposed system, as well as, the idea of its parts.
Let's start by dropping the "hemiparesis" label - My left side is NOT effing WEAK. It's disconnected from a functional part of my brain. "Weak," I can fix; disconnected takes a couple million reps to fix. Calling my left side "weak" is an insult. It was't weak when I was diagnosed with hemiparesis - it was not connected to my brain; non-use of my left-side muscles until they were reconnected made them atrophy, becoming weak. Calling my left side "weak" from the get-go makes me sound lazy - and you know what? I am NOT lazy! Dean, if you can rant about our stroke associations, I can rant about the "hemiparesis" label. Let's at least get the words right, if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to write about that hemiparesis label. I'm sure I could get into high dungeon on that, but then I get into high dungeon on everything, must be the sociopath in me.
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