A Telerehabilitation Framework for Lower-Limb Functional Recovery

Wearable devices are driving the development of post-surgery rehabilitation procedures, also helping in reducing the recovery time and social costs. This paper presents a real-time monitoring framework aimed at supporting telerehabilitation sessions for lower-limbs functional recovery. The presented framework supports patients during the execution of rehabilitation exercises by monitoring the limb movements through a set of low-cost wearable sensors and providing them with multi-modal bio-feedback to enhance the quality of the performed actions. The system also assists the therapist in the definition of exercises tailored to the patient and enables the collection of historical data in cloud-based services for monitoring the effects of therapies and further analysis.