Compiling Criteria for Assessing Essential Aspects of Home Exercise Performance: A Questionnaire-Based Approach.

Health-enabling technologies (HET) have high potential in rehabilitation to support patients performing their home exercises. The modeling of human movements as well as the modelling of quality criteria of an exercise performance remains challenging when implementing HETs. A combination of data-driven approaches and knowledge-based methods may deliver new insights.

Factors for Individualization of Therapeutic Exercises for the Design of Health-Enabling Technologies.

Designing health-enabling technologies (HETs) to support individualized physiotherapeutic exercises requires comprehensive knowledge of bio-psycho-social factors to be considered. Therefore, this review identified factors for individualization of therapeutic exercises in patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders in peer-reviewed articles searched in MEDLINE. The final full-text analysis included 16 of 335 search results and extracted nineteen main categories of individualization factors.

OnTARi: an ontology for factors influencing therapy adherence to rehabilitation.

Background: Adherence and motivation are key factors for successful treatment of patients with chronic diseases, especially in long-term care processes like rehabilitation. However, only a few patients achieve good treatment adherence. The causes are manifold.

Health-Enabling Technologies to Assist Patients With Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders When Exercising at Home: Scoping Review.

Background: Health-enabling technologies (HETs) are information and communication technologies that promote individual health and well-being. An important application of HETs is telerehabilitation for patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders. Currently, there is no overview of HETs that assist patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders when exercising at home.

Gamification in Rehabilitation of Patients With Musculoskeletal Diseases of the Shoulder: Scoping Review.

Background: Gamification has become increasingly important both in research and in practice. Particularly in long-term care processes, such as rehabilitation, playful concepts are gaining in importance to increase motivation and adherence. In addition to neurological diseases, this also affects the treatment of patients with musculoskeletal diseases such as shoulder disorders.

Health-Enabling Technologies for Telerehabilitation of the Shoulder: A Feasibility and User Acceptance Study.

Background: After discharge from a rehabilitation center the continuation of therapy is necessary to secure already achieved healing progress and sustain (re-)integration into working life. To this end, home-based exercise programs are frequently prescribed. However, many patients do not perform their exercises as frequently as prescribed or even with incorrect movements.

Transfer Physical Therapists Knowledge: A Pre-Test to Minimize the Complexity of Physical Therapists' Quality Assessment of Shoulder Exercise Performance.

Exercise therapy aims to restore normal musculoskeletal function or to reduce pain in patients with musculoskeletal shoulder disorders. Especially during long-term treatments, patients perform unsupervised exercises at home. Harmful movement deviations should be identified and avoided.

Networking of Young Researchers in the European Area: Relevance, Requirements and Realization Possibilities.

Networking is a key competence, especially for young researchers in the field of medical informatics. Therefore, it is encouraged in organizations like AMIA. Since, in Europe no such networking possibility is known, concepts and ideas for the implementation shall be established and assessed with regard to their appropriateness.

Semi-Automatically Measuring Shoulders' Range of Motion - Objective Measurements with Good Reliability and Accuracy.

The shoulder's range of motion (ROM) is an important measurement for the diagnostic process and course of treatment for patients with shoulder disorders or injuries. Visual estimation to assess a shoulder's ROM is a fast measuring method, and therefore routinely used in clinical practice. Studies already proved this method as very subjective and unreliable.

Introducing a Method for Transformation of Paper-Based Research Data into Concept-Based Representation with openEHR.

Combining research data and clinical routine data is a chance for medical research. We present our method for the transformation of paper-based research data into a concept-based representation. With this representation the study data from research projects can be combined with data from clinical tools with less integration effort.