A Virtual Approach to Rehab for Joint Replacement
From: Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry - 09/2015 - page 18
By: Arundhati Parmar

A San Diego-based startup is reimagining physical therapy for patients who
have undergone joint replacement surgery.

Reflection Health is leveraging consumer technology like Microsoft's Kinect
and drawing upon medical expertise to creat a virtual rehab program in which
an avatar - Vera - will coach patients as they exercise at home.

Kinect is a motion capture camera that can record the patient actually doing
the exercises and display them on a screen next to Vera. When done correctly,
Vera will turn around and acknowledge that is was done correctly, just as a
physical therapist would. The display has visual cues to guide the patient.

Read the entire article at:
http://dc.cn.ubm-us.com/i/566897-mddi-september-2015/17

Link:
Reflection Health
http://reflexionhealth.com

Related:
Microsoft Kinect Could Reinvent Physical Therapy
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-topic/microsoft-kinect-could-reinvent-physical-therapy

Socially Assistive Robot Exercise Coach for Older Adults (with video 2:55)
http://robotics.usc.edu/~jfasola/research.html#sarcoach