The Development Of Low Cost Exercise Monitoring Device For Paralytic

Paralysis may not be cured completely but can be recovered by going through proper rehabilitation process. But many of these disabled patients lack the enthusiasm and motivation for time consuming and costly rehabilitation process. Moreover it is difficult for the people of low income group of Bangladesh to afford regular and expensive physiotherapy sessions. The primary focus of the work was to fabricate an exercise monitoring device from locally available materials at low cost. The device will provide audio-visual instructions of exercises like shoulder abduction, adduction, flexion and extension. It will also provide necessary feedback for executing them through an android device. The monitoring device can locate the position and comprehend the motion of affected limb using an accelerometer. Data exchange happens through Bluetooth using serial port profile. The device will gather vital dataset like pitch angle and number of repeated motion to determine correctness of exercise and save for sharing, hence making it possible to trace consistency and improvement of the patient without the need of constant presence of a physiotherapist. This paper presents the fabrication process, performance evaluation of the device. The scopes for future improvements are also discussed.