Project seeks to optimize kinesic telerehabilitation in patients
After a period of advanced training in Italy, an academic from the University of Talca is seeking to create a protocol about the dosage that a long-distance rehabilitation process should have through video games.
With the aim of gathering knowledge and inputs to strengthen kinesic telerehabilitation of patients, the academic from the University of Talca, Valeska Gatica Rojas, spent some time at the company OT Bioelettronica, in Turin, Italy, where she learned the details of the work of the company that originated under the guidance of the University of Turin. " What was achieved are learnings and collaborations that are currently underway and in future research actions, from both them and our side ", she specified.
"This experience will allow the generation of inputs for a project financed by the Regional Fund for Productivity and Development (FRPD) of the Regional Government of Maule, which was awarded in October of last year, and is initiated during this quarter. "It involves interweaving the other FIC projects that we have carried out in telerehabilitation, especially in the intervention process, at a long distance, with the use of video games"," he indicated.
The idea is to develop a protocol for using the advancements achieved by your Lab, which includes the My Virtual Therapist technology, the first invention patent in the history of kinesiology in our country, and the Smart Mesck technology, which is also patented.
Specifically, Smart Mesck is a telemonitoring technology through a 'mask collar,' which monitors the user's heart rate and respiratory frequency anywhere. Meanwhile, My Virtual Therapist comes to strengthen both standard telerehabilitation and that developed in virtual environments, whether 2D or immersive. The latter includes a sensorized sport shirt together with a mobile application that allow improving, analyzing, and diagnosing physiological and biomechanical indicators of a person's postural control.
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The generation of this protocol directly benefits health professionals who are part of remote care platforms. They will have more background on patient progress with these technologies. Doctors, nurses, nutritionists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and geriatricians will be able to interact with the platform to understand their patients' progress and at the same time interact with them, he specified.
Gennaro Boccia, associate professor of the Department of Clinical Biology at the University of Turin, emphasized that, "the presented technologies are promising, and can be greatly utilized in the clinical field of patients".