Post-Stroke Telerehabilitation

Speaker: Christopher Golby

Affiliation: The University of Warwick, UK

Time: Monday 12/12/2011 from 14:00 to 15:00

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Campbelltown (26.1.50), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Penrith (Y239).

Abstract:

Every year, five million people are left with a long term disability as a result of stroke. This can result in many life altering outcomes from vision, speech and hearing difficulties through to neuromuscular deficiencies. These individuals require long term care and support to carry on with their lives and for help reintegrating back into the community. However, this type of support requires a large amount of resources, and research now shows that the healthcare community is struggling to provide these patients with the care that they require.

This presentation will provide a background on stroke and what its influence is on our lives. The talk will then describe how recent developments in the field of remote rehabilitation, namely ‘Telerehabilitation’, have provided a potential answer to this problem. Work in this field that is currently being carried out at the University of Warwick will also be described, with particular reference to the assessment of post-stroke patients via telerehabilitation.

Biography: Christopher Golby is a doctoral research at the Institute of Digital Healthcare: The University of Warwick, UK, working under Professor Vinesh Raja in the Virtual Reality and Informatics group. The department works with the UK National Health Service (NHS) and a multitude of private companies to evaluate current, and create new, digital technologies within UK healthcare. Christopher is currently performing research within the field of telerehabilitation (rehabilitation from a remote location) for stroke patients. He is evaluating the remote automated assessment of stroke patients within the NHS through a range of hardware, developing bespoke software for UK Healthcare. With a degree in Computer Science from the University of Keele, UK; Christopher is interested in the application of technology to innovative settings through the principles of Human Computer Interaction.