The qualitative and quantitative assessment of human motor function is indispensable in medicine in order to, among other things, identify pathologies, precisely plan possible therapies, appropriately select assistive devices, and efficiently accompany the recovery process. While gait analysis is already successfully used in leading treatment centers as an objective measurement tool for the evaluation and clinical assessment of locomotion, this technology is prohibitively expensive for most inpatient facilities and practices, and its use has so far been spatially bound to an appropriately equipped gait laboratory. Once the patient leaves a treatment facility, he or she becomes "invisible" to the practitioner. The RehaToGo project aims to make it possible for the first time for patients to take complex motor measurement capabilities with them into their home environment and to carry out exercise treatments on an outpatient basis both in direct feedback and in telemedical feedback with the practitioners.

In the project, completely new technology of movement measurement of the extremities by means of RFID radio tags (so-called "tags") will be developed and integrated into everyday clothing. Using miniaturized readers, the information can be recorded and processed.

Part­ners
ID4us GmbH, Uni­ver­si­tät Du­is­burg-Es­sen, Fraun­ho­fer FHR, Unyt GmbH & Co. KG, Hein­rich-Hei­ne Uni­ver­si­tät, Uni­ver­si­täts­kli­ni­kum Essen, Uni­ver­si­tät Pa­der­born, Lut­ter­mann GmbH, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum (Chair for Integrated Systems)