Getting-up rehabilitation therapy supported by movement based interaction techniques

Every day the number of diseases related to brain problems increases dramatically. Medical facilities are full of people who need complex rehabilitation processes as a result of suffering from Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer’s disease, brain stroke, or multiple sclerosis, as well as other conditions. Patients often spend a long time travelling every day to get to the corresponding rehabilitation clinics. Physiotherapists carefully attend patients over a period of time, and the exercises are often extremely repetitive. The type of patient suffering from these type of illnesses is unable to perform many common every day actions such as getting-up from a chair, walking in a straight line, picking up objects, etc. The system we propose in this paper provides a way for patients to perform the common rehabilitation process of getting-up from a chair. It monitors and guides the patient when the specialist considers they are prepared to do so. The specialists can focus on the results and the way to improve each rehabilitation process and not just on iterations.Cada día aumenta el número de casos encontrados de enfermedades que afectan al cerebro y que necesitan tratamiento en un centro de rehabilitación, tales como el Parkinson, el Alzhéimer, los Ictus Cerebrales o la Esclerosis Múltiple. Algunas de ellas, suelen obligar al paciente a asistir a rehabilitación de forma ininterrumpida, lo cual exige desplazamientos diarios y la continua supervisión de un terapeuta. Muchos de estos pacientes necesitan reeducar alguno de los ejercicios básicos que se realizan en el día a día, como levantarse de una silla o caminar un tramo sin balancearse. Para ello, los terapeutas deben dedicar una cantidad de tiempo grande todos los días en comprobar que los pacientes realizan estos ejercicios de forma correcta. En este artículo, se presenta un sistema que monitoriza y guía en tiempo real al paciente en su proceso de rehabilitación para el ejercicio de levantarse de una silla