Telerehabilitation using Real Time Communication

Abstract

There are many diseases affecting the population trends globally.Miniaturization of sensors in combined with medical information technology provides efficient solutions to reduce costs and deliver remote medical services through connected devices. Remote consultation via video‐conferencing has been well established, but the chronic or long‐term musculoskeletal conditions require pro‐active management and therapy thus raising the need to develop more advanced telerehabilitation systems. In this paper, we introduce KinectRTC that can be used for Kinect‐based telerehabilitationwith efficient real‐timetransmission of video, audio and skeletal data. The Web Real‐TimeCommunication (WebRTC) technology has benefitted to the proposed framework which is able to manage video and audio streams based on the state of the network and the available bandwidth to guarantee the real‐time performance of the communication.