An Interactive Wireless-based Telemedicine System for Back Care Applications
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P. Acelas
Pau Arce
Wilder Castellanos
Román Belda
Ismael de Fez
Francisco Fraile
Víctor Murcia
Tito Raúl Vargas
Manuel Monfort
Juan Carlos Guerri
Abstract
According to recent reports, millions of workers suffer from dorso-lumbar pain due to their occupation. This problem affects people who work seated in front of a screen, who have to stand up for long periods of time, who have to handle heavy weights, or who have to endure forced and awkward postures. In this paper, a system is proposed to allow the assessment of the muscular condition in any environment (at work, at school, in the house) in a comfortable and simple way for the patient and using the advances in wireless communications. Only a wireless electromyograph and a handheld device (Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or mobile phone) with wireless interface are needed. By the PDA or mobile phone, the user can configure the medical device and transmit online the electromyographic signals to a remote server. In this way, the specialist can consult the results and assess the function of the muscle during the activity in order to establish healthy behaviours for the patient.
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Publication
Waves, 2, 56–65. iTEAM, Universitat Politècnica de València
Wireless Telemedicine
Electromyography
MHealth
Handheld Devices
Back Pain
Health Monitoring
Mobile Computing
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Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València
Pau Arce Vila received his Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2005, his M.S. in Communication Technologies, Systems and Networks in 2008, and his PhD in Telecommunications in 2014, all from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is a Profesor Permanente Laboral in the Communications Department at UPV and a researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) since 2005. His research interests include multimedia QoS, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, routing in wireless ad hoc networks, and performance evaluation of multimedia systems.
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Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València
Román Belda received his degree in Computer Science in 2004 and an M.S. in Telematics in 2013 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from UPV in 2021. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València and a member of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM). His research interests include adaptive video streaming (MPEG-DASH), low-latency and peer-assisted video delivery, Quality of Experience (QoE), mobile applications and multimedia transmission protocols.
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Master’s Programme Director at Valencian International University (VIU)
Ismael de Fez was born in Valencia, Spain in 1983. He received his Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2007 and his M.S. in Telematics in 2010 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), where his M.Sc. thesis was awarded by the Telefónica chair of UPV. He obtained his PhD in Telecommunications from UPV in 2014 and an MBA from UPV in 2017. He worked as an R&D Engineer at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM, UPV) from 2008 to 2021. Since 2021 he has been Director of the Master’s in Development of Web Applications and Services at the Valencian International University (VIU). His research interests include multimedia transmission, DASH adaptive streaming, QoE modelling, AL-FEC coding for unidirectional wireless environments, and file encoding.
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Full Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València
Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada was born in Valencia, Spain in 1969. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Communications Engineering at UPV, where he teaches at the ETSI Telecomunicación. He leads the Multimedia Communications research group (COMM) of the iTEAM (Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications). His research spans multimedia communications, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, wireless and ad hoc networks, and the application of multimedia technologies to industry, medicine, education and communications.