Sensors • Vol 23 • No 1
Physiotherapy Exercise Classification with Single-Camera Pose Detection and Machine Learning
December 2022 • Colin Arrowsmith, David Burns, Thomas C. W. Mak, Michael Hardisty, Cari Whyne
Access to healthcare, including physiotherapy, is increasingly occurring through virtual formats. At-home adherence to physical therapy programs is often poor and few tools exist to objectively measure participation. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the potential for performing automatic, unsupervised video-based monitoring of at-home low-back and shoulder physiotherapy exercises using a mobile phone camera. Joint locations were extracted from the videos of healthy subjects performing low-back and…