| dc.description.abstract | Frozen shoulder is one type of shoulder disease that is commonly seen clinically, and its main symptom is the limit in the mobility of the shoulder joint of the patient and the shoulder pain. Since its therapeutic process of rehabilitation takes a long period of time, and due to some problem like patients lacked for motivation or don’t have enough physiotherapists, patients are often unable to continue to complete the entire course of treatment, For the rehabilitation effectiveness of frozen shoulder, in addition to patient’s subjective reduction in pain and progress in function, objectively, it has to rely on the test on active and passive mobility of joint implemented by the therapist, however, the implementation from the therapist is very time-consuming, and it takes an appropriate space too. Due to the progress in technology, many emerging technology have extend new solutions to solve many existing problems, like virtual reality technology、interactive technology、game engine、wireless sensor technology and so on. Today, there are lots of researches using these emerging technologies in association with medical rehabilitation and to develop new rehabilitation system.
Therefore, the objective of this research is to combine virtual reality technology and wireless sensor technology to develop “Assessment instrument for self-measurement of the mobility of shoulder joint” and “Target-lead frozen shoulder rehabilitation system”. “Assessment instrument for self-measurement of the mobility of shoulder joint” is mainly used to help patient to measure the mobility of the shoulder joint. Patient only has to follow the instruction and teaching on the screen to finish all kinds of standard shoulder joint actions, the progress in shoulder joint can then be evaluated at any time, eventually, the goal of real-time and self-assessment of the effectiveness of rehabilitation can be achieved. “Target-lead frozen shoulder rehabilitation system” is mainly used to train patient’s mobility of the shoulder joint and muscle strength of the shoulder, and maintaining the patient’s motivation for continuing rehabilitation by setting the targets. Also to motivate patients to beyond the target set by physical therapists and increase the efficiency of rehabilitation.
The final experiment result shows that this system can effectively and reliably measure the mobility of the shoulder joint and effectively enhance the effectiveness of the rehabilitation of frozen shoulder, and also successfully developed a new type of campaign indicators with evaluation capability. For this system, the users also have a high degree of technology acceptance and willing to continue to use the system for rehabilitation. | en_US |