A wearable intelligent system for monitoring health condition and rehabilitation of running athletes

A wearable intelligent platform for the monitoring of the health condition and rehabilitation of athletes is presented. The system provides doctors and trainers with real-time monitoring, alerting and medical decision support. It aims to help them optimize treatment and training procedures during rehabilitation, to prevent injury relapses and to ensure a prompt return to peak athletic condition. The system's design requirements are laid out along with its functional description. It is composed of three main subsystems: the athlete subsystem, the rehabilitation station and the portal. The athlete subsystem includes all the monitoring sensors worn by the athlete during training, along with a signal collector and a processing-transceiver unit for preliminary evaluation and for exchanging information with the rehabilitation station. The rehabilitation station is the main control, access and communication point of the system carrying most of the processing. The measurements derived from the received signals are fed into an intelligent module, which provides with the monitoring, alerting and decision support mechanisms. A virtual reality interface is used by the athlete to communicate with the system. The portal is a long-term data storage facility collecting selected data for research purposes.