Scoliosis Rehabilitation Assistant: A Real-time Scoliosis Training System

Scoliosis is a complex three-dimensional deformity of the spine and trunk, which often occurs in healthy adolescents. Although most adolescent scoliosis doesn't have clinical symptoms, scoliosis may develop into rib deformity and respiratory system damage, which seriously affects the life quality of patients. At present, the scoliosis rehabilitation training based on Schroth method has been proved to be effective in slowing down the progression of scoliosis. In this work, we present a real-time practical wearable system called scoliosis rehabilitation assistant (SRA). The system can monitor patients for scoliosis rehabilitation training through inertial measurement unit (IMU), and provides supporting rehabilitation training games. After the training, the training data will be transmitted to the cloud database in real time, providing insights for the future development of patients. The result from a user study demonstrated that our system has great potential to become an effective solution to help patients with spinal rehabilitation training and reduce the workload of scoliosis doctors.