Development of a Lower Limb Rehabilitation Wheelchair System Based on Tele-Doctor–Patient Interaction

Portable rehabilitation training devices are coming into normal families and becoming an important part of home rehabilitation. At the same time, the rehabilitation system combining virtual reality technology and tele-doctor–patient interaction and portable rehabilitation devices is a new research trend. In this paper, an intelligent rehabilitation training system which is one of the first product that make it possible for patients to do lower limb training at home is proposed. It includes an electric wheelchair with lower limb training function, a multivariate control module, a virtual reality training module and a tele-doctor–patient interaction module. This system can solve the shortcomings of large volumes of existing products. The lower limb training games module which is based on virtual reality technology make the rehabilitation procedure more interesting. The tele-doctor–patient interaction module enables patients to do lower limb training at home, meanwhile doctors can give assignments to patients based on the score of the last game to save more medical resources and time effectively.