Rehabilitation Exercise Prescription on Android System

Abstract

© 2019 IEEE. The rehabilitation exercise prescription (Rehab-X) aims to develop Android mobile applications dividing into Rehab-X doctor for manipulating patients' visiting records and exercise prescriptions and Rehab-X patient for viewing of the exercise prescription and watching exercise video.To prescribe an exercise prescription, exercise pose information must be added to the system. The exercise poses are separated into two types: symptom and body part and each type is classified into stretching and strengthening. Each exercise also has an associated video for a demonstration to patients. The exercise prescription includes the exercise photos, step by step descriptions, and the QR code that links to the demonstration video for each exercise pose. Moreover, the doctor can specify each exercise pose with a duration period for each time and the number of times to do per day. After all, the system creates the exercise prescription in a PDF file and saves it in a particular patient's medical record as well as generates a QR (Quick Response) code for the patient to scan and view the exercise prescription via his/her own Android smartphone. This paper describes Rehab-X and programming techniques which can be applied for issuing any further medical prescriptions on Android smartphone system.