Serious games for assessment and rehabilitation of ankle movements

Author

Goncalves, Ana Carolina B. F. ; dos Santos, Wilian M. ; Consoni, Leonardo J. ; Siqueira, Adriano A. G.

Author_Institution

Robotic Rehabilitation Lab., Univ. of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a set of serious games for assessment and rehabilitation of pos-stroke patients. The proposed games are connected to a robotic platform for ankle rehabilitation, which allows the patients to perform tasks regarding dorsiflexion movements and muscle strength. An usability study fo the robotic platform was conducted in 19 hemiparetic and 19 healthy subjects, with the aim of evaluating ergonomics issues, safety, level of difficulty of the games, and platform ability to measure subjects´ dorsiflexion range of motion and torque. Results from both games are presented and discussed.

Keywords

ergonomics; medical robotics; muscle; patient rehabilitation; serious games (computing); ankle movement rehabilitation; dorsiflexion movement; dorsiflexion range; ergonomics issue; muscle strength; pos-stroke patient; robotic platform; serious games; usability study; Games; Maintenance engineering; Medical treatment; Read only memory; Robot kinematics; Torque; robotic rehabilitation; serious games; walking rehabilitation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SeGAH.2014.7067071

Filename

7067071