title: Validation of a tele-home-care for hand-telerehabilitation.
abstract: The hand rehabilitation process needs a continuous and frequent monitoring of the patient's functionality in order to test the delivered therapy and/or adapt it to the patient's progress. In order to contain costs for the rehabilitation program, a tele-homecare rehabilitation system is suitable. We have proposed a tele-home-care allowing the assessment of the hand fingers' dynamics and kinematics by integrating with a dedicated software two particular devices: the first was a commercial glove, the HumanGlove by Humanware (Pisa, Italy) and the second was a set of instruments for the measurement of the hand fingers' force comprehending an Instrumented Keyboard (IK) and an Instrumented Mouse-Like (IML) device. The platform has been successfully tested at Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS).
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, via Regina Elena 299, Rome, Italy. dgiansa@ieee.org
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Giansanti
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morelli
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maccioni
authors.forename: Velio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Macellari
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D006225:Hand; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D018737:Hand Strength; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface