A home-based tele-rehabilitation exercise system for patients after knee replacement surgery.

ABSTRACT: Knee arthritis is a destructive disorder that affects the knee joints and causes pain and reduced mobility. Drug treatments, weight loss, and exercise control the symptoms of the disease, but these methods only delay the disease process and eventually, knee joint replacement surgery will be needed. After surgery, with the help of a proper physiotherapy program, full recovery takes an average of 6-12 months. However, currently, there is no similar tool to facilitate this process in Iran. The purpose of this research is to design and develop the prototype of a rehabilitation system for patients after knee replacement surgery, which provides patients with information and appropriate physiotherapy programs. This study was development-applied and was done in three stages. In the first stage, th

SUBMITTER: Salehian F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11289961 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature