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A Modern Approach to Personalize Exergames for the Physical Rehabilitation of Children Suffering from Lumbar Spine

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Abstract

Physical rehabilitation of people with injuries or illnesses related to the lumbar spine involves an intensive treatment to reduce pain or improve mobility. Research studies have evidenced the benefits of complementing the patient’s regular treatment with exercise routines at home. However, in the case of children and adolescents, there is a risk of abandoning the exercise routine if it is not motivating enough. Currently, there is a trend which consists in using games for rehabilitation exercises, called exergames, as a possible solution for motivating patients while they perform physical rehabilitation. However, both customizing and creating them is still a task that requires considerable investment both in time and effort. Thus, this paper presents a language along with a system based on the physical rehabilitation of children suffering from some sort of lower back pain, which enables the customization and the automatic generation of exergames. We have conducted an experiment with children for evaluating the capabilities of our approach. The obtained results show that the tool is fun, interesting and easy to use.

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  • 16 June 2021

    In the originally published version of chapter 35, the special characters in the names of Cristian Gómez-Portes and Santiago Sánchez-Sobrino had been left out initially due to conversion errors. This has been corrected.

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    https://www.khronos.org/gltf/.

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    https://docs.microsoft.com/es-es/azure/kinect-dk/body-joints.

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    https://unity.com/es.

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    https://www.blender.org/.

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    https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/services/kinect-dk/.

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    https://docs.microsoft.com/es-es/azure/kinect-dk/system-requirements.

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    https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/services/cognitive-services/speech-services/.

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This research was funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III, grant number DTS18/00122, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund/European Social Fund “Investing in your future”.

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    Cristian Gómez-Portes, Carmen Lacave, Ana I. Molina, David Vallejo & Santiago Sánchez-Sobrino

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1.1 A Description of the Evaluated Items

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Gómez-Portes, C., Lacave, C., Molina, A.I., Vallejo, D., Sánchez-Sobrino, S. (2021). A Modern Approach to Personalize Exergames for the Physical Rehabilitation of Children Suffering from Lumbar Spine. In: Filipe, J., Śmiałek, M., Brodsky, A., Hammoudi, S. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 417. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75418-1_35

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