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In this paper, the idea of a modular activity monitoring system is introduced. By using different combinations of the system's three modules, different functionality becomes available: 1) a coarse intensity estimation of physical activities 2) different features based on HR-data and 3) the recognition of basic activities and postures. 3D-accelerometers — placed on lower arm, chest and foot — and a...
Exercise constitutes an important intervention aiming to improve health and quality of life for several categories of patients. Personalized exercise prescription is a rather complicated issue, requiring several aspects to be taken into account, e.g. patient's medical history and response to exercise, medication treatment, personal preferences, etc. The present work proposes an ontology-based framework...
The main objective of this work was to evaluate and compare the effects of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) therapy in the walking ability and muscle strength studied by electromyography (EMG) analysis between subacute and chronic stroke patients. Eighteen consecutive hemiplegic patients suffering from foot drop were assigned either to subacute or chronic group. Patients of both groups' were...
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