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Patient follow-up using Serious Games. A feasibility study on low back pain patients.

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Games for Health

Abstract

Low Back Pain (LBP) is one of the most frequent pathologies related to musculoskeletal disorders. Patients suffering from LBP must perform rehabilitation exercises in order to avoid chronic disorder. At the beginning these exercises are performed with physiotherapists during rehabilitation. A major part of the treatment need to be performed at home by the patient himself. Serious Games (SG) could be used to increase patients’ motivation and to be sure that patients are performing these exercises and most important that they are doing it in the right way. A specific SG was created for LBP patients. Motions performed during the game are recorded and parameters (range of motion, speed, coupled motion) are processed. The aim of this feasibility study was to evaluate the intra and inter day reproducibility of this system to evaluate whether or not it can be used in daily practice for following the evolution of the patient and for scoring the severity of disorders.

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  1. Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis (LABO), Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 619, Lennik Street 808, Brussels, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    B. Bonnechére, L. Da Silva, M. Rooze & Jan S. Van Sint

  2. Department of Electronics and Informatics – ETRO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium

    B. Jansen & L. Omelina

  3. Dept. of Future Media and Imaging (FMI), iMinds, Gaston Crommenlaan 8, Ghent, 102, B-9050, Ghent, Belgium

    B. Jansen

  4. Rehabilitation center of locomotor system, Erasme Hospital, Lennik Street 806, Brussels, 1070, Belgium

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  3. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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  4. Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Bonnechére, B. et al. (2013). Patient follow-up using Serious Games. A feasibility study on low back pain patients.. In: Schouten, B., Fedtke, S., Bekker, T., Schijven, M., Gekker, A. (eds) Games for Health. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02897-8_14

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