Systems and methods for facilitating rehabilitation therapy

A method for facilitating in-home rehabilitation therapy, the method comprising:

• inputting parameters indicative of a physical or mental impairment of a patient into a computer, the parameters include Fugl-Meyer scores;
• responsive to receiving the input parameters, executing an algorithm that recommends computer-based activities that can be prescribed to the patient to address the patient's particular physical or mental impairment based on the Fugl-Meyer scores assigned to each of the input parameters, the computer-based activities being automatically generated and displayed for acceptance by a therapist or substitution of at least one rehabilitative activity with an activity selected by the therapist to produce a rehabilitation itinerary to form a rehabilitation regimen of a plurality of rehabilitative activities tailored for the patient;
• providing a patient workstation having a tabletop console comprising a mat and one or more user interface devices mounted to the mat, wherein the one or more user interface devices include a first plurality of buttons positioned on the mat and spaced apart so as to define four corners of a rectangular space on a surface of the mat, and a second plurality of buttons adjacent to each other and arranged in two lateral rows positioned within the rectangular space, wherein the lateral rows are biased towards one edge of the rectangular space, wherein the lateral rows are curved so as to ergonomically receive the patient's fingertips, wherein the first plurality of buttons are larger in size than the second plurality of buttons, wherein the first plurality of buttons are adapted to illuminate;
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• programming the patient workstation to host a selected plurality of the computer-based activities for the patient, wherein the tabletop console is configured to receive inputs from the patient via the one or more user interface devices when the activities are being performed by the patient.

A rehabilitation system for facilitating in-home rehabilitation therapy of a patient, said system comprising:

• a. a therapist control system that tracks and analyzes data to evaluate patient performance of rehabilitative exercises, comprising:
• a therapist network connection device;
• a therapist processing device communicatively coupled to the therapist network connection device;
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• a therapist memory communicatively coupled to the therapist processing device, the therapist memory includes software that includes:
• a first therapist software program that, upon execution by the therapist processing device, receives assessment data identifying a health condition for the patient, and automatically generates one or more potential rehabilitative activities based on the assessment data, the one or more potential rehabilitative activities being displayed for acceptance by a therapist or substitution of at least one rehabilitative activity with an activity selected by the therapist to produce a rehabilitation itinerary to form a rehabilitation regimen of a plurality of rehabilitative activities tailored for the patient;
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• a second therapist software program that, upon execution by the therapist processing device, analyzes data associated with activities conducted by the patient performing the plurality of rehabilitative activities and generates revised rehabilitative activities based on the analyzed data for transmission to a patient workstation;
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• b. the patient workstation including:
• a patient network connection device;
• a patient processing device communicatively coupled to the patient network connection device;
• a tabletop console communicatively coupled to the patient processing device, the tabletop console comprising a mat and one or more user interface devices mounted to the mat, wherein the one or more user interface devices are communicatively coupled to the patient processing device and configured to receive inputs from the patient, wherein the one or more user interface devices include a first plurality of buttons positioned on the mat and spaced apart so as to define four corners of a rectangular space on a surface of the mat, and a second plurality of buttons adjacent to each other and arranged in two lateral rows positioned within the rectangular space, wherein the lateral rows are biased towards one edge of the rectangular space, wherein the lateral rows are curved so as to ergonomically receive the patient's fingertips, wherein the first plurality of buttons are larger in size than the second plurality of buttons, wherein the first plurality of buttons are adapted to illuminate;
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• a patient memory communicatively coupled to the patient processing device, the patient memory includes software that includes
• one or more patient interactive programs that, upon execution by the patient processing device, perform one or more of the plurality of rehabilitative activities that are tailored for the patient and played back on a monitor, the one or more rehabilitative activities being conducted in accordance with the rehabilitation regimen, wherein the tabletop console receives inputs from the patient via the one or more user interface devices when the rehabilitative activities are being conducted by the patient;
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• one or more patient software programs that, upon execution by the patient processing device, collect and store data associated with activities conducted by the patient in response to playback of the one or more rehabilitative activities, the one or more software programs being further configured to transmit at least a portion of the stored data via the patient network connection device to the therapist control system.