Toward a Design of a Telerehabilitation Program for the Functional Recovery in Post-Hip Arthroplasty Patients

Abstract

Telerehabilitation uses new information and communication technologies as an instrument to ensure a distant rehabilitation service. Patients who underwent hip replacement surgery are an excellent case study for the application of this technology. Post-surgical rehabilitation guidelines for hip arthroplasty are well known, and the correct application has a positive effect on the patients' prognosis. However, there are no complementary guidelines for physical therapy that could be used at a distance by patients through a computer platform. This chapter presents a systematic review about conventional physical therapy programs for hip arthroplasty. Based on this review, we proposed therapeutic exercises adapted to a low cost web-platform. In order to reach this objective we will present a brief review of the total hip arthroplasty, telemedicine, telerehabilitation and conventional physical therapy approaches.

New Exercise Monitoring and Management Technologies in Post-Operative Orthopaedic Rehabilitation

“…This is thought to be due to inaccurate measurements of systems with improper calibration by low-cost systems implemented by image processing technologies and other inertial sensors. According to the conclusion of the review, telerehabilitation services can be used as a complement to traditional physical therapy (23).…”