康复学报 (Apr 2023)
Application of Mobile Internet Applications in Rehabilitation
Abstract
The use of mobile internet applications (APPs) has become an indispensable part of daily life and has been applied in clinical rehabilitation. APPs assist rehabilitation to expand the rehabilitation scene. It makes rehabilitation assessment more simple and convenient, and makes trainings more intelligent and diversified. APPs-assisted rehabilitation has been applied in rehabilitation assessment, rehabilitation training and improvement of social activity participation. This review summarizes the application of APPs in rehabilitation field at home and abroad in order to maximize efficiency of the combination of APPs and rehabilitation training, and provide the evidence basis for further development of mobile internet rehabilitation services in the future. In rehabilitation assessment, APPs can be used to assist in the assessment of joint range of motion, balance and gait, speech and cognition, and psychological function. In rehabilitation training, APPs can be used to assist upper limb function training, chronic pain rehabilitation training, balance and gait training, cognitive psychological function training and other functional training. In the improvement of patients' participation in social activities, APPs can be used to assist activities of daily living, improve participation in work and study, and facilitate recreational activities. The application of APPs in rehabilitation can simplify the process of rehabilitation assessment and treatment, expand the scene of rehabilitation training, make the ways of rehabilitation more intelligent and diversified, improve the motivation and compliance of patients during training, and promote the rapid development of rehabilitation treatment. However, there are still many difficulties in the application of APPs in rehabilitation profession, such as lack of universal applicability, limited functions, and unstandardized software design and use. In the future, it is necessary to conduct research on the combination of internet mobile APPs and rehabilitation, to find and develop the comprehensive APPs suitable for people with different functional disabilities, in order to maximize efficiency of the APPs in assisting rehabilitation.
