Friday, November 12, 2010

Wireless sensors for physical therapy

Michigan researchers develop rfid-based sensors to measure physical activity
www.rfidjournal.com/article/print/7884 See image on right.
Therapy uses of radio-frequency identification (rfid) or wireless sensors include detecting information such as body movements like sitting activities or movement around a room. The sensors can store this information or relay it to some other equipment. Think of the handheld component of the Nintendo Wii as a wireless sensor.
Therapy applications could include tracking location and distance of walkers, monitoring range and frequency of upper extremity exercises, and providing feedback to the patients, as the interactive computer games do now. Sensors can be specific to therapy uses, and have been created to provide a quantitative way to measure physical therapy activity and activities of daily living.
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