Kinect to your applications
From: SD Times - 01/10/2012 - page 62
By: Patrick Hynds

Kinect is being used in some very innovative applications. For the medical
field in general, the Kinect is huge. Some implementations are based on the
Xbox 360, such as at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in England, which is using
off-the-shelf, Kinect-enabled games to work on patient balance, coordination
and movement in general. 

For a more custom implementation that works on for rehabilitation,
InterKnowlogy uses the PC with the Kinect, and bases its code on the Windows
Kinect SDK, which is the most interesting way to go, in my opinion. Coon
mentioned an application he referred to affectionately as the "rehab-o-matic
application," which helps people recover from surgery. 

After surgery, there are a number of checkups to see how the patient is
progressing. The idea is to use the Kinect to let the patient rehab at home
and measure the progress, which is easier on the patient and saves money. The
system can even report back to the doctor on how the patient is doing.
InterKnowlogy has posted a video showing how it works and talking about some
of the challenges in the development at that is worth checking out.  

Read the entire article at:
http://www.sdtimes.com/link/36225

Links:
Kinect Shoulder Rehabilation Video (7:13)
http://vimeo.com/31285207

InterKnowlogy
http://www.interknowlogy.com/

Rehabilitating with Kinect Video (2:21)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sv3nKPeM9g