PhD student Rehabilitation Sciences - Automated functional evaluation during rehabilitation...

Updated: over 2 years ago
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 11 Aug 2021

Background

Within the context of the expansion of the research of the REVAL Rehabilitation Research group of Hasselt University the faculty of Rehabilitation sciences wishes to inform about a vacant PhD position (100%) in the use of serious games (exergames) in physical rehabilitation. REVAL is an interdisciplinary and translational research group which performs research in the domains of pediatric, neurologic and musculoskeletal rehabilitation, biomechanics, health psychology, mental health care and rehabilitation of internal diseases.

Job content

The exercises that patients must perform at home, or between the rehabilitation sessions with the therapists, are an important part of rehabilitation. Commercial video games can be used to increase patients’ motivation but do not provide feedback and are not based on rehabilitation schemes. Specific solutions (i.e., Valeo®Motion) have been developed for rehabilitation purposes but allow only a moderate level of parametrization, assessment, and required specific materials. Therefore specific solutions, the serious games, have been developed to be used in rehabilitation. During this project you will evaluate the possibility of performing simple and regular functional evaluation of the patients while they are performing the exercises. Several aspects will be investigated: a laboratory validation (comparison with a gold-standard (i.e., the GRAIL system)), evaluation of various group of patients to correlate the score of the games with the clinics. Finally we will evaluate if such kind of solutions can be implemented (feasibility and efficacy) at-home with without the supervision of clinicians to perform telerehabilitation and telemonitoring.



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