Thoroughly Approach to Upper Limb Rehabilitation Using Serious Games for Intensive Group Physical Therapy or Individual Biofeedback Training

Several studies have shown that game-based rehabilitation is a viable option to improve the treatment of patients with physical disabilities. Even though many games are built focusing on rehabilitation, the majority does not present a broad study about the right approach on the many types of existing conditions and also the physiological and medical implications of this games in the patient´s treatments. The actual level of integration between Unity and the body-tracking device supported by Microsoft Kinect, has provided a solid tool to build a serious game focusing the rehabilitation paradigm. This work presents the steps and foundation regarding the subject to build a serious game with focus in rehabilitation of the upper limb, more specifically of those patients with hemiplegia or hemiparesis, with the use of biofeedback analysis to evaluate the patient´s development. It also shows the possibility of the multiplayer perspective into the rehabilitation treatment to help with the learning phase and bring motivation to the gaming experience.