Wearable sensing garment for posture detection, rehabilitation and tele-medicine

Monitoring body kinematics and analyzing posture and gesture is an area of major importance in bioengineering and several other connected disciplines such as rehabilitation, sport medicine, and ergonomics. In particular, the knowledge of the position of joints ensures the possibility to remotely describe the posture, and may consent the participation of remote operator to certain performance executed by a subject wearing a sensing garment, including the possibility to tele-rehabilitate patients in their own environment. The aim of this paper is to present a wearable system able to reveal the status of body kinematic chains. In particular a sensing glove developed to detect the posture of the hand is presented.