REMOTE MONITORING OF REHABILITATION FOR TRAVMATOLOGICAL AND ORTHOPEDIC PATIENTS

The growing number of injuries and diseases of the musculoskeletal system creates a great need for treatment and subsequent rehabilitation of patients. In the given article a smartphone application for patients with pathology of the knee joint is described based on a three-axis accelerometer and software program that permits monitoring traumatological and orthopedic patients in outpatient conditions. A program module has been developed for record and analysis of data from a three-axis accelerometer of smartphone. A smartphone is used as a motion sensor. The obtained results are integrated into the mobile application prototype and became the basis for development of user's scenarios and user interface of the application. To evaluate the accuracy of exercises, three parameters were chosen: synchrony, amplitude and number of repetitions. The application includes 24 exercises for patients with pathology of the KJ. The application is registered and available for free download. A possibility for monitoring the condition of patients in the complex treatment of KJ osteoarthritis with use of smartphone as a feedback tool is substantiated. Conclusion. It is possible to use a smartphone as a monitoring tool in the rehabilitation of traumatological and orthopedic patients, but the real influence on the rehabilitation process remains unclear due to a small number of observations.