An Intelligent Remote Monitoring System for Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients.
For the first six weeks following total knee arthroplasty (TKA), a patient will attend an outpatient clinic typically seen twice weekly. Here, an exercise regime is performed and improvement assessed using a hand held goniometer that measures the maximum angle of knee flexion, an important metric of...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 1 - 7 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Jun2017
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