A Mobile Cloud Computing Framework Integrating Multilevel Encoding for Performance Monitoring in Telerehabilitation

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed a surge in telerehabilitation and remote healthcare systems blessed by the emerging low-cost wearable devices to monitor biological and biokinematic aspects of human beings. Although such telerehabilitation systems utilise cloud computing features and provide automatic biofeedback and performance evaluation, there are demands for overall optimisation to enable these systems to operate with low battery consumption and low computational power and even with weak or no network connections. This paper proposes a novel multilevel data encoding scheme satisfying these requirements in mobile cloud computing applications, particularly in the field of telerehabilitation. We introduce architecture for telerehabilitation platform utilising the proposed encoding scheme integrated with various types of sensors. The platform is usable not only for patients to experience telerehabilitation services but also for therapists to acquire essential support from analysis oriented decision support system (AODSS) for more thorough analysis and making further decisions on treatment.

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“…With a reliable direct link or Internet connection, two or more rehabilitation participants could remotely interact, visually and mechanically, even when separated by long distances. That feature could be used by a therapist to provide homebased medical care (KARIME et al, 2015;LI et al, 2015;MINGE et al, 2017;AL-MAHMOOD;AGYEMAN, 2018) to a patient (Fig. 2a) or supervise multiple individuals taking part in group activities (Fig.…”

“…2b). This usage of telecommunication technologies for medical purposes is named telemedicine, which in this case is more specifically defined as telerehabilitation (CARIGNAN; KREBS, 2006;LI et al, 2015). Source: The author, adapted from Carignan and Krebs (2006) Performing therapy over distance presents its own set of challenges, though, to be overcome in order to provide a more cost-effective solution to physicians and impaired people in constraining conditions.…”