This solution makes an assumption that you have at least limited movement in all the planes of motion. Wouldn't work for me at all due to spasticity. And no one in the world knows how to fix spasticity. Thus I'm probably screwed for the rest of my life.
Camera Based Arm Motion Tracking for Stroke Rehabilitation Patients
- A. Akhavizadegan
- , M. Y. I. Idris
Abstract
Human motion tracking for
rehabilitation has been a progressive research area since the 1980s. It
has been driven by the increased number of patients who have suffered a
stroke, or some other motor function disability. Rehabilitation is a
dynamic process in which it enables patients to regain their normal
functional capabilities. To achieve this goal, a patients’ activities
need to be continuously monitored, and subsequently corrected. However,
due to economic pressures, stroke patients are receiving less therapy
and are sent home sooner, so the potential benefit of the therapy is not
completely realized. Thus, it is essential to develop a rehabilitation
technology that allows individuals who had suffered a stroke to practice
intensive movement training without the need of an always-present
therapist. This paper introduces a real-time human arm motion tracking
system specifically intent to be used for home-based rehabilitation. The
system consists of an inexpensive webcam and a laptop. Then our
algorithm is able to extract the patient’s arm, track the motion of any
point on the arm over time, evaluate its velocity and measure the
angular motions, namely “elbow flexion”, “elbow extension”, “wrist
flexion” and “wrist extension” movements, furthermore, the trajectory of
any point of interest on the arm can be evaluated and visualized for
the patient or doctor for further analysis.
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