Personalising Exergames for the Physical Rehabilitation of Children Affected by Spine Pain

Cristian Gómez-Portes, Carmen Lacave, Ana Molina, David Vallejo, Santiago Sánchez-Sobrino

2020

Abstract

Injuries or illnesses related to the lumbar spine need great clinical care as they are one of the most prevalent medical conditions worldwide. The use of exergames has been widespread in recent years and they have been put forward as a possible solution for motivating patients to perform rehabilitation exercises. However, both customizing and creating them is still a task that requires considerable investment both in time and effort. In this project we present a language with which we have designed a system based on the physical rehabilitation of patients suffering from bone-marrow injuries, which enables customization and generation of exergames. To assess the system, we have designed an experiment with an exergame based on the physical rehabilitation of the lumbar spine. The purpose of this was to assess its understanding and suitability, whose result reveals that the tool is fun, interesting and easy to use. It is hoped that this approach can be used to considerably reduce the complexity of creating new exergames, as well as supporting the physical rehabilitation process of patients with lower back pain.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gómez-Portes C., Lacave C., Molina A., Vallejo D. and Sánchez-Sobrino S. (2020). Personalising Exergames for the Physical Rehabilitation of Children Affected by Spine Pain.In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-423-7, pages 533-543. DOI: 10.5220/0009574005330543

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis20,
author={Cristian Gómez-Portes and Carmen Lacave and Ana Molina and David Vallejo and Santiago Sánchez-Sobrino},
title={Personalising Exergames for the Physical Rehabilitation of Children Affected by Spine Pain},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2020},
pages={533-543},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009574005330543},
isbn={978-989-758-423-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Personalising Exergames for the Physical Rehabilitation of Children Affected by Spine Pain
SN - 978-989-758-423-7
AU - Gómez-Portes C.
AU - Lacave C.
AU - Molina A.
AU - Vallejo D.
AU - Sánchez-Sobrino S.
PY - 2020
SP - 533
EP - 543
DO - 10.5220/0009574005330543