Cellphone-based Automated Fugl-Meyer Assessment to Evaluate Upper Extremity Motor Function after Stroke.

The Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) is a widely used evaluation tool for assessing upper extremity motor function during stroke rehabilitation. However, the FMA is a repetitive, time-consuming task that currently must be performed by therapists in a hospital or clinic. We thus propose an alternative automated approach in which patients perform FMA movements while holding a cellphone at the hand and re...