FITREHAB - Fitness and rehabilitation at home under expert planning

Main objectives

• perform a field test of a rehabilitation and training platform
• to asses the clinical efficacy of a rehabilitation and training platform
• to deploy a procedure within the existing infrastructure of hospitals
• to asses the benefits of a rehabilitation and training platform for the national health systems in terms of costs and performance

Activity

The rehabilitation and training platform will consist of two integrated stations. One station will be used at hospitals by the medical staff to schedule a customized program of exercises. The other station will be used by the patient at home to do fitness with a virtual environment as a trainer. The movements of the patient will be tracked by several sensors attached to a smart shirt. An avatar will mimic the movements of the patient in the virtual environment. Biological sensors will monitor heart rate, temperature and breathing effort. This information will be sent back to the station in the hospital to be reviewed by the medical staff. If needed they can  adapt the scheduled programme.

Lead participant

• University of Milan (Department of Computer Science – Laboratory of Applied Intelligent Systems AIS Lab) - Lombardy (I)

Participants

• Private Foundation Barcelona Digital Technology Centre - Catalonia (E)
• Foundation of De Wever - North Brabant (NL)
• Private Foundation CETEMMSA - Catalonia (E)
• Viljandi Hospital Foundation - Tartu (EST)
• ASL of Brescia Province - Lombardy (I)
• Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Research (Ltd) - Upper Austria (A)

Company

• Ab.Acus srl - Lombardy (I)

Contact             

University of Milan, Mr. Alberto Borghese, E: borghese@dsi.unimi.it

More information at: http://fitrehab.dsi.unimi.it/