VIRTUAL-PHYSIO: A Virtual Assistant for Home Physiotherapy Rehabilitation

Nicoletta Balletti, Nicoletta Balletti, Antonella Cascitelli, Patrizia Gabrieli, Emanuela Guglielmi, Gennaro Laudato, Aldo Lazich, Marco Notarantonio, Rocco Oliveto, Rocco Oliveto, Stefano Ricciardi, Simone Scalabrino, Jonathan Simeone

2025

Abstract

Mobility impairments reduce the ability of patients to complete daily activities. Physio-therapeutic exercises help patients address such limitations. Correctly executing these exercises is crucial, often requiring a physiotherapist’s guidance. To address this need, combining advanced sensors with artificial intelligence offers a promising solution for home rehabilitation, enabling remote monitoring and reducing stress. In this paper, we introduce VIRTUAL-PHYSIO, a virtual assistant for remote rehabilitation integrated into a home-deployable low-cost physiotherapy monitoring system 2VITA-B PHYSICAL. VIRTUAL-PHYSIO provides real-time feedback during rehabilitation exercises and evaluates entire sessions, allowing physiotherapists to focus on critical cases. We experimented with VIRTUAL-PHYSIO on 51 individuals whose performances were also evaluated by a physiotherapist as a reference. The results (i) highlight good patient acceptability for the virtual assistant, and (ii) show that the proposed machine learning approach can effectively perform an automated evaluation of rehabilitative movements.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Balletti N., Cascitelli A., Gabrieli P., Guglielmi E., Laudato G., Lazich A., Notarantonio M., Oliveto R., Ricciardi S., Scalabrino S. and Simeone J. (2025). VIRTUAL-PHYSIO: A Virtual Assistant for Home Physiotherapy Rehabilitation. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-731-3, SciTePress, pages 467-474. DOI: 10.5220/0013127400003911

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf25,
author={Nicoletta Balletti and Antonella Cascitelli and Patrizia Gabrieli and Emanuela Guglielmi and Gennaro Laudato and Aldo Lazich and Marco Notarantonio and Rocco Oliveto and Stefano Ricciardi and Simone Scalabrino and Jonathan Simeone},
title={VIRTUAL-PHYSIO: A Virtual Assistant for Home Physiotherapy Rehabilitation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2025},
pages={467-474},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013127400003911},
isbn={978-989-758-731-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - VIRTUAL-PHYSIO: A Virtual Assistant for Home Physiotherapy Rehabilitation
SN - 978-989-758-731-3
AU - Balletti N.
AU - Cascitelli A.
AU - Gabrieli P.
AU - Guglielmi E.
AU - Laudato G.
AU - Lazich A.
AU - Notarantonio M.
AU - Oliveto R.
AU - Ricciardi S.
AU - Scalabrino S.
AU - Simeone J.
PY - 2025
SP - 467
EP - 474
DO - 10.5220/0013127400003911
PB - SciTePress