Fitzgerald, Diarmaid and Foody, John and Kelly, Dan and Ward, Tomas E. and Markham, Charles and McDonald, John and Caulfield, Brian (2007) Development of a wearable motion capture suit and virtual reality biofeedback system for the instruction and analysis of sports rehabilitation exercises. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, 2007, Lyon, France.

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Abstract

This paper describes the design and development of a computer game for instructing an athlete through a series of prescribed rehabilitation exercises. In an attempt to prevent or treat musculoskeletal type injuries along with trying to improve physical performance, athletes are prescribed exercise programmes by appropriately trained specialists. Typically athletes are shown how to perform each exercise in the clinic following examination but they often have no way of knowing if their technique is correct while they are performing their home exercise programme. We describe a system that allows an automatic audit of this activity. Our system utilises ten inertial motion tracking sensors incorporated in a wearable body suit which allows a bluetooth connection from a root hub to a laptop/computer. Using our specifically designed software programme, the athlete can be instructed and analysed as he/she performs the individually tailored exercise programme and a log is recorded of the time and performance level of each exercise completed. We describe a case study that illustrates how a clinician can at a later date review the athletes progress and subsequently alter the exercise programme as they see fit.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	wearable motion capture suit; virtual reality biofeedback; sports rehabilitation exercises;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
Item ID:	1302
Depositing User:	Dr Tomas Ward
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2009 14:38
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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