Towards Standardized Processes for Physical Therapists to Quantify Patient Rehabilitation

Abstract

Physical rehabilitation typically requires therapists to make judgements about patient movement and functional improvement using subjective observation. This process makes it challenging to quantitatively track, compute and predict long-term patient improvement. We therefore propose a novel methodical approach to the standardized and interpretable quantification of patient movement during rehabilitation. We describe the expert-led development of a movement assessment rubric and an accompanying quantitative rating system. We present our movement capture and annotation computational tools designed to implement the rubric and assist therapists in the quantitative documentation and assessment of rehabilitation. We describe results from a movement capture study of the tool with nine stroke survivors and a movement rating study with four therapists. Findings from these studies highlight potential optimal methodical process paths for individuals engaged in capturing, understanding and predicting human movement performance.

Keywords
Home based rehabilitation therapy
stroke rehabilitation
human movement capture
human movement assessment
Authors
Aisling Kelliher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Setor Zilevu
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Thanassis Rikakis
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Tamim Ahmed
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Yen Truong
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Steven L. Wolf
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
DOI

10.1145/3313831.3376706

Paper URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376706

Conference: CHI 2020

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2020.acm.org/)

Session: Understanding & inspiring movement

Paper session
314 LANA'I
5 items in this session
2020-04-28 11:00:00
2020-04-28 12:15:00
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