Frozen Shoulder Rehabilitation using Microsoft Kinect

Frozen Shoulder, also known as Adhesive Capsulitis ceases the mobilization of internal rotators of the shoulder joints. This paper proposes an easy-to-use intervention for frozen shoulder rehabilitation using low-cost markerless depth camera Microsoft Kinect. Our system consists two applications developed with Kinect Software Development Kit 2.0 (SDK). One application is shoulder angle measurement and other is Virtual Reality based rehabilitation exergames. Exergame is the blend of exercise and video game that gives new rehabilitation experience to the patients. Experiments are conducted on angle measurement application. Pearson coefficient r, RMSE and Bland-Altman plot are used to validate the angle results of our application with values acquired from goniometer as a true measurement.