NCT02685839

Development of an Intelligent POWER Rehabilitation Cluster Machine and Its Clinical Testing and Assessment

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Elderly care has become one of the most important subjects in Taiwan and "frailty syndrome" are the most common problems among the elderly. In view of this trend, Taipei Veteran Memorial Hospital imported POWER rehabilitation from Japan in 2008. While showing significant clinical benefits, investigators have found that the system still has certain limitations (e.g. high cost, requires large space, patients must commute to the center, lacks real-time objective feedback , boring routines makes staying power to motivate patients for long term rehabilitation programs.) To overcome the above limitations, this project proposes an evidence-based rehabilitation model that accounts for actual clinical need and collaborates with our engineering team to develop a "cluster" , "wearable" and "Brain-Computer Interface System" version of POWER rehabilitation system. Combining cloud technology, investigators now introduce internet-of-things into the POWER rehabilitation procedure. The result will lower the burden of clinical support personnel, and provide an opportunity to quantify "frailty syndromes" so as to allow objective and quantitative scientific evaluation, leading to a more objective clinical diagnosis. In addition, this project further proposes a virtual-reality (VR) system for POWER rehabilitation, as well as designs for the VR sceneries. Through the use of different animated 3D VR sceneries and interactive game design, investigators can make rehabilitation interesting and fun for the patients, motivating long-term compliance of the patients, thereby, improving the clinical outcome of POWER rehabilitation. This project has the potential to create an innovative solution to address the current bottlenecks of our rehabilitation treatment model. Successful development of the system will offer rehabilitation clinicians more treatment options, lower the cost of supporting staff, reduce commuting cost for the patients, and elevate patient desire to comply with the treatment program. Finally, the system will not only enhance Taiwan's academic reputation in the international arena, it will also generate new commercial opportunities for Taiwan and contribute to Taiwan economic development.

Conditions

• Frailty Syndrome
• Intelligent POWER Rehabilitation Cluster Machine

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Intelligent POWER Rehabilitation Cluster Machine
OTHER	general physical therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-05-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2018-07-01
• First posted: 2016-02-19
• Last updated: 2016-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan