An Active Rehabilitation System for Adhesive Capsulitis

Abstract

Adhesive capsulitis is a stick of shoulder capsule that causes stick due to acute or chronic inflammation. It will cause serious impacts on patient’s daily life. Rehabilitation agencies used a shoulder abduction ladder, Pulley System for Upper Limb rehabilitation. Without electronics, networking is its drawback. The system digitizes an upper extremity rehabilitation equipment, and records the patient's rehabilitation information, such as the ability to lift the upper limbs, rehabilitation time and frequency, and so on. In addition, the system uses the Gray relational analysis to evaluate the rehabilitation efficacy. Physicians can know the patient's condition to improve his rehabilitation strategy. Patients can also know their rehabilitation effects so to encourage their rehabilitation psychology, so the arms can be recovered early.