A Review on Technical and Clinical Impact of Microsoft Kinect on Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

This paper reviews technical and clinical impact of the Microsoft Kinect in physical therapy and rehabilitation. It covers the studies on patients with neurological disorders including stroke, Parkinson's, cerebral palsy, and MS as well as the elderly patients. Search results in Pubmed and Google scholar reveal increasing interest in using Kinect in medical application. Relevant papers are reviewed and divided into three groups: (1) papers which evaluated Kinect's accuracy and reliability, (2) papers which used Kinect for a rehabilitation system and provided clinical evaluation involving patients, and (3) papers which proposed a Kinect-based system for rehabilitation but fell short of providing clinical validation. At last, to serve as technical comparison to help future rehabilitation design other sensors similar to Kinect are reviewed.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Medical Engineering

• Publication date

  2014-12-10

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2014/846514PMID 27006935PMCID 4782741
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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