Smart rehabilitation overview
Using IoT, wearable sensors, artificial intelligence, and VR/AR, the solution gives rehabilitation providers, care homes, and home programs a way to capture training data, guide sessions remotely, make practice more engaging, and measure results. Demand in China is large: stroke, post-operative orthopedics, and sports injury together involve more than ten million patients a year. Conventional rehab still depends on manual assessment and paper notes, so adherence is weak, progress is hard to measure, and people training at home often have no guidance.
Smart devices, wearable sensors, and force-feedback equipment record joint angle, muscle strength, range of motion, and gait. Therapists guide home sessions by video and a training plan. VR and AR make practice more engaging, which supports adherence. Progress and outcome measures are totaled and shown automatically, so the plan can be adjusted and the result assessed. The system can connect to the hospital HIS and the electronic medical record for quality management and research, and it fits rehabilitation, orthopedics, neurology, care homes, and home programs.
Policy and industry context
The 14th Five-Year Implementation Plan for a High-Quality and Efficient Medical and Health Service System calls for stronger rehabilitation capacity and for that capacity to move closer to patients. The Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Rehabilitation Medical Services encourage models such as Internet Plus rehabilitation and remote rehabilitation. Need is large: more than 13 million people are living after stroke, with about 2.5 million new cases a year; orthopedic surgery exceeds 5 million cases a year; and faster aging is driving demand for geriatric rehabilitation and chronic-disease rehabilitation. Conventional services face a shortage of therapists — about 2.6 per 100,000 people — plus little guidance at home, weak adherence, and results that are hard to measure. Digital tools extend how far a rehabilitation service can reach, and make it easier to access and more effective.
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