Design and Development of PhysioBot for upper-limb Telerehabilitation Applications

Abstract

People with loss of lower or upper extremity function are common in individuals of the aging population, people with disability post-stroke, fracture, and other neurological damage. Physiotherapy is an essential treatment for people with a disability regularly. Physiotherapists use various diagnosis, rehabilitation, and health promotion devices to promote, maintain or restore patient health. Rehabilitation exercise machines are present in rehabilitation centers and hospitals in India. It requires the presence of physiotherapists and tracks a patient's improvement status based on daily exercises. To decrease the workload of physiotherapists, telerehabilitation systems are developed. Using Information and Communication Technology (ICT), a similar rehabilitation exercise machine is developed in such a way that provides physiotherapy exercises and has continuous monitoring of a patient's improvement status.