FAST@HOME

Nowadays there are many eHealth applications available to support the rehabilitation of people with stroke, but the target group and their therapists find it difficult to make a good choice from these and to use them in an appropriate way.  This was the reason for the research project FAST@HOME (funding RAAKPRO/SIA; main applicant: Arend de Kloet, The Hague University of Applied Sciences), with as central research question: “To what extent is the quality of treatment by professionals improved as a result of digital support of home rehabilitation for CVA-patients?”. As part of the project, a digital rehabilitation treatment environment for people after a stroke was developed, implemented and evaluated. Part of the treatment environment was the optimisation of patients’ physical behaviour using objectively measured data from an accelerometer. For its expertise in this field, the Rehabilitation Department of Erasmus MC was involved in the project. The FAST@HOME project was the start of Hanneke Braakhuis’ PhD project (see “Beyond counting steps: Measuring physical behaviour with wearable technology in rehabilitation”).