Monitoring rehabilitation exercises using MS Kinect

In many situations after a stroke or an accident the patient needs to execute for a period of time rehabilitation exercises. In most of the cases the patient needs to be helped by specialized personnel in kinetoterapy and rehabilitation techniques. The process is long and the costs are high, if the impact of the stroke or of the accident was not so strong, or after a period of time after the patient has been under treatment, he will be able to execute the exercises alone without assistance, but he will be supervised by a specialist. The paper propose a system for monitoring rehabilitation exercises in order to track the progress of the patient, without the need of the specialist, this could allow the patient to make the exercises at home and also to cut drastically the costs. The system can be trained to detect the exercise and to compare the motion with the correct form, offering feedback to the patient and tracking the progress.