ABSTRACT
It’s know that computing is becoming increasingly integrated into
other knowledge areas, providing practical and innovative solutions
to many types of problems, including to health care area. In
this sense, the amputatee patients physical rehabilitation process
also shows as an important area for tools development that assist
the professional physiotherapist, since this rehabilitation process
is long-lasting and exhaustive for patients. Thus, the present work
describes the development of a solution called Muscle Fatigue Identifier
(MFID) to improve the amputee physical rehabilitation process,
by detecting muscle fatigue during physical exercise sessions,
which once unidentified, can cause injury and pain to patients,
further prolonging treatment. The developed system consists in
the integration of sensors, hardware and software. This way, it was
possible to monitoring and identify the muscle fatigue occurrence
during the physical exercise sessions performed by the patients, as
well as allowing a use tool to evaluate the physiotherapy treatment.