Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez

Hospital Universitario de Getafe · Biomedical Research Foundation

Purpose: Frailty is a reversible multidimensional syndrome that puts older people at a high risk of adverse health outcomes. It has been proposed to emerge from the dysregulation of the complex system dynamics of physiologic control systems. We propose the analysis of the fractal complexity of hand movements as a new method to detect frailty in ol...

Objective We aimed to co-create and evaluate an integrated system to follow-up frailty in a community dwelling environment and provide a multi-modal tailored intervention. Frailty and dependency among the older population are a major challenge to the sustainability of healthcare systems. Special attention must be paid to the needs and particulariti...

Delirium is a sudden mental state that causes confusion and disorientation, affecting a person's ability to think and remember clearly. Virtual assistants are a promising alternative for non-pharmacological interventions. This research aims to present a prototype of ADELA, a conversational assistant to prevent delirium in hospitalized older persons...

Falls are a leading cause of unintentional trauma-related deaths worldwide, and a significant contributor to elderly dependence. To address this, the goal of this project was to predict recurrent falls in the older population using machine learning techniques, with the aim of reducing the number of falls and their consequences.To achieve this, a da...

We present the preliminary results of a validity and reliability study of two different state-of-the-art algorithms to estimate the gait speed of older adults in free-living conditions from the data collected by the ActiveUP wearable device. We described the ActiveUP wearable sensor together with its integration in a smart environment for frail and...

Background POSITIVE ( i.e. maintaining and imPrOving the intrinSIc capaciTy Involving primary care and caregiVErs ) is a new intervention program consisting of home-monitoring equipment and a communication platform to support treatment of frailty symptoms initially in primary care and prevent disability in older adults. Methods The primary objecti...

This chapter proposes the concept of healthcare‐enabled Smart Homes, where telecare, intelligence, and home automation merge. It presents the definition of a Smart Home and its role in the current ageing society. One of the main aims of Smart Homes is making residents' daily life easier. Once the topic is contextualised, the chapter describes the h...

Frailty predisposes older persons to adverse events, and information and communication technologies can play a crucial role to prevent them. CAPACITY provides a means to remotely monitor variables with high predictive power for adverse events, enabling preventative personalized early interventions. This study aims at evaluating the usability, user...

Population aging threatens the sustainability of welfare systems since it is not accompanied by an extended healthy and independent period in the last years of life. The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) has been shown to be efficient in maintaining the healthy period at the end of the life. Frailty monitoring is typically carried out for an...

Ubiquity (devices becoming part of the context) and transparency (devices not interfering with daily activities) are very significant in healthcare monitoring applications for elders. The present study undertakes a scoping review to map the literature on sensor-based unobtrusive monitoring of older adults' frailty. We aim to determine what types of...

BACKGROUND Frailty is a highly prevalent condition that predisposes older persons to adverse events. According to the WHO, there is a pressing need to develop comprehensive community-based approaches, and to introduce interventions to prevent functional decline. In this regards, Information and Communication Technologies can play a crucial role to...

The present paper describes a system for older people to self-administer the 30-s chair stand test (CST) at home without supervision. The system comprises a low-cost sensor to count sit-to-stand (SiSt) transitions, and an Android application to guide older people through the procedure. Two observational studies were conducted to test (i) the sensor...

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease with a high prevalence among older people, and it is related to an increased risk of functional and cognitive decline, in addition to classic micro and macrovascular disease and a moderate increase in the risk of death. Technology aimed to improve elder care and quality of life needs to focus in the early dete...

Lower-limb strength is a marker of functional decline in elders. This work studies the feasibility of using the quasi-periodic nature of the distance between a subjects' back and the chair backrest during a 30-s chair-stand test (CST) to carry out unsupervised measurements based on readings from a low-cost ultrasound sensor. The device comprises an...

Background: Scientific evidence supports that prevention strategies like multicomponent physical exercise help avoiding functional decline, falls and frailty. The robotic walker FriWalk, developed within the ACANTO project, supports the execution of controlled physical activities during hospital admission to prevent functional deterioration associa...

Ageing has significant impacts on the organization of healthcare services, especially for elderly people affected bycognitive impairment. Recent findings suggest that physical exercise, a controlled diet, and intellectual and socialstimulation are modifiable factors to prevent and slow down cognitive decline. Moreover, having information on thedise...

Background: The increasing number of patients with acquired brain injury and the current subjectivity of the conventional upper extremity (UE) assessment tests require new objective assessment techniques. Objective: This research proposes a novel objective motor assessment (OMA) methodology based on the Fugl-Meyer assessment (FMA). The goals are...

Esta investigación propone la valoración objetiva del control motor de la extremidad superior (ES) de pacientes con Daño Cerebral Adquirido (DCA) en neurorrehabilitación funcional, basada en la automatización de las pruebas de la evaluación Fugl-Meyer (FM). El objetivo principal de este trabajo es calcular una medida objetiva, puntuando de forma au...

Resumen Esta investigación propone la valoración objetiva del control motor de la extremidad superior (ES) de pacientes con Daño Cerebral Adquirido (DCA) en neurorrehabilitación funcional, basada en la automatización de las pruebas de la evaluación Fugl-Meyer (FM). El objetivo principal de este trabajo es calcular una medida objetiva, puntuando de...

This paper proposes a first approach for the automation of the Fugl-Meyer assessment scale used in physical neurorehabilitation. The main goal of this research is to automatically estimate an objective measurement for five Fugl-Meyer scale items related to the assessment of the upper limb motion. An objective score has been calculated for 7 patient...

El presente trabajo propone la automatización de las pruebas de la evaluación Fugl-Meyer (FM) usada para valorar el movimiento de la extremidad superior (ES) de pacientes con Daño Cerebral Adquirido (DCA) en neurorrehabilitación funcional. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es investigar una medida objetiva, puntuando de forma automática cada pr...

Robotic devices are becoming a popular alternative to the traditional physical therapy as a mean to enhance functional recovery after stroke; they offer more intensive practice opportunities without increasing time spent on supervision by the treating therapist. An ideal behavior for these systems would consist in emulating real therapists by provi...

Objective assessment of psychomotor skills has become an important challenge in the training of minimally invasive surgical (MIS) techniques. Currently, no gold standard defining surgical competence exists for classifying residents according to their surgical skills. Supervised classification has been proposed as a means for objectively establishin...

This research work proposes a simulation-based planification tool for the selection of the most suitable configuration parameters of an assistance-as-needed controlled upper limb neurorehabilitation orthosis. The selection of these parameters is performed by applying planification algorithms that analyze the results of a set of simulation batteries...

This paper proposes a first approach to Objective Motor Assessment (OMA) methodology. Also, it introduces the Dysfunctional profile (DP) concept. DP consists of a data matrix characterizing the Upper Limb (UL) physical alterations of a patient with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) during the rehabilitation process. This research is based on the comparis...

a b s t r a c t Objective: This research is focused in the creation and validation of a solution to the inverse kinematics problem for a 6 degrees of freedom human upper limb. This system is intended to work within a real-time dysfunctional motion prediction system that allows anticipatory actuation in physical Neurorehabil-itation under the assist...

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation is a complex clinic process which tries to restore or compensate cognitive and behavioral disorders in people suffering from a central nervous system injury. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Biomedical Engineering play an essential role in this field, allowing improvement and expansion of presen...

Here an inertial sensor-based monitoring system for measuring and analyzing upper limb movements is presented. The final goal is the integration of this motion-tracking device within a portable rehabilitation system for brain injury patients. A set of four inertial sensors mounted on a special garment worn by the patient provides the quaternions re...

La estimación de la posición 3D de las diferentes estructuras que aparecen en cirugía laparoscópica es una medida de gran importancia para el desarrollo de aplicaciones para la formación y aprendizaje de futuros cirujanos. Para dicha estimación se hace necesaria una etapa previa de segmentación de estructuras y de seguimiento de las mismas a lo lar...

La cirugía de mínima invasión (CMI) es un tipo de cirugía que, dado el elevado número de ventajas que presenta frente a la cirugía abierta tradicional, está siendo cada vez más utilizada en los centros hospitalarios de todo el mundo. Sin embargo, su inconveniente principal es que requiere la adquisición de nuevas habilidades motoras y cognitivas. E...