Deans' stroke musings: Unobtrusive Monitoring of Home-Based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises Using Heterogeneous Sensors

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, January 20, 2020

Unobtrusive Monitoring of Home-Based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises Using Heterogeneous Sensors

But is it better than these other sensors?

Unobtrusive Monitoring of Home-Based Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises Using Heterogeneous Sensors

Idongesit Ekerete, Oonagh M. Giggins, Ian Cleland, Chris Nugent, and Jim McLaughlin
This paper proposes the use of heterogeneous sensors to unobtrusively monitor post-stroke rehabilitation exercises in a home environment. Rehabilitation exercises at home help post stroke sufferers to avoid long queues at health facilities and transportation problems associated with visiting these facilities. Experimental results demonstrated the ability to capture postures from a Heimann HTPA 32x32 thermal sensor, and speed and range during hand-stretching and gait-retraining exercises from a D2G Doppler radar sensor. Plans for future work are also outlined. I. INTRODUCTION Exercise rehabilitation is an integral part in the treatment of many conditions and particularly in the management of stroke. Rehabilitation in the home environment is an alternative aimed at decongesting health facilities and avoiding logistical complexities associated with transportation to these facilities [1]. Sensing technologies provide an opportunity to monitor post-stroke suffers as they undertake rehabilitation exercises at home. Many types of sensors have been previously used including wearable and video-based solutions, both having their advantages and disadvantages. Whilst they have been shown to provide high accuracy of the usability, wearable sensors are limited by their battery life and the forgetfulness of the user to charge and wear the device. Conversely, video cameras pose issues around privacy. These limitations can lead to inaccurate measurement of health parameters, the exercises not being undertaken effectively, non-compliance with the recommended protocol and subsequent discontinuation of a rehabilitation process [2]. This work proposes the use of nonwearable sensing solutions to monitor posture, range and speed of post-stroke patients during rehabilitation exercises in a home based setting. Information related to health parameters gathered during exercises such as posture, speed and range can help physiotherapists to ascertain if exercises have been performed as prescribed.