Wrist diseases, also known as “mama hand”, “mouse hand”
or “keyboard hand”, are commonly seen and easily over-looked symptoms in
daily life. The diseases are mostly related to incorrect exercise or excessive
force imposed on hands, leading to tenosynovitis or carpal tunnel syndrome. To
alleviate the symptoms or even to recover, besides drug treatment, supplementary
rehabilitation training is necessary. The rehabilitation process forces the
affected wrist area to continually exercise in order to stimulate the
self-repair signals sent to the affected area for partial restoration, if not
all, of the supposed functions. In modern world, using information technology
to improve the rehabilitation environment with better approaches has become a
trend. In this study, software programs coded in C# and Flash are developed to
work on the Bluetooth ball hardware to facilitate the rehabilitation. The basic
principle is to use the reaction from the Bluetooth ball’s swaying or swinging
to drive the movement of the objects on the computer screen, making the supposedly
boring rehabilitation much more fun and vivid in the interactive multimedia
environment, thus gaining better treatment effect. Also, RFID, Internet and
databases can be integrated into this facility to provide patient
identification and data storage for references in making rehabilitation
training programs.
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