A database of physical therapy exercises with variability of execution collected by wearable sensors

Zusammenfassung

The PHYTMO database contains data from physical therapy exercises and gait variations recorded with inertial sensors, including information from an optical reference system. PHYTMO includes the recording of 30 volunteers, aged between 20 and 70 years old. A total amount of 6 exercises and 3 gait variations commonly prescribed in physical therapies were recorded. The volunteers performed two series with a minimum of 8 repetitions in each one. Four inertial sensors were placed on the lower-or upper-limbs for the recording of the motions together with passive optical reflectors. The database includes magneto-inertial data (linear acceleration, turn rate and magnetic field), together with a highly accurate location and orientation in the 3D space provided by the optical system (errors are lower than 1mm). The database files were stored in CSV format to ensure usability with common data processing software. The main aim of this dataset is the availability of inertial data for two main purposes: the analysis of different techniques for the identification and evaluation of exercises monitored with inertial wearable sensors and the validation of inertial sensor-based algorithms for human motion monitoring that obtains segments orientation in the 3D space. Furthermore, the database stores enough data to train and evaluate Machine Learning-based algorithms. The age range of the participants can be useful for establishing age-based metrics for the exercises evaluation or the study of differences in motions between different aged groups. Finally, the MATLAB function <em>features_extraction</em>, developed by the authors, is also given. This function splits signals using a sliding window, returning its segments, and extract signal features, in the time and frequency domains, based on prior studies of the literature.