Deans' stroke musings: Development of a game-based system to support stroke rehabilitation using kinect device

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.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Development of a game-based system to support stroke rehabilitation using kinect device

Kinect research on this has been out there for years. Why haven't our professionals put this into a publicly available stroke protocol and stop researching the same stuff over and over again?
I have 12 posts on this back to June 2012. FDA approved the device for stroke in May 2014.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7369379&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D7369379

Author(s)

Bamrungthai, Pongsakon
Division of Computer Science, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, Samutprakarn, Thailand
Pleehachinda, Woranuch

A game-based system to support stroke rehabilitation is developed in this paper. The goal is to make the rehabilitation process more accessible and enjoyable to the patients. The system consists of 3 modules, including the Device Module (DM), the Game Module (GM), and the Data Collection Module (DCM). The DM communicates with the Microsoft's Kinect device to receive the skeleton data of the patients and send it to the GM for the game processing. The jigsaw puzzle is implemented as a color matching game to simplify the gaming process and can support a wide range of patients. Hand and upper limb movement is required to grasp and move the jigsaw pieces to the right place. The trajectories of hand, elbow, and shoulder that are collected by the DCM can be used to assess the patient's progress. The system has been tested with a real patient. He can play the developed game after a learning period. The result shows that the body balance capability of the patient is implicitly required by the system to maintain motion tracking of the Kinect device.