Limitations and Future Directions
stroke
STROKE
No female participants were recruited into the FitMi therapy group, which limits
the generalizability of the reported results. A smaller percentage of FitMi
participants were impaired on their dominant side than in the conventional group
(29% vs 38%). Alternating allocation has been shown to be prone to selection
biasFuture research could study how exercise technologies such as FitMi can best be
integrated into routine clinical practice. Providing stroke survivors with FitMi
in any waiting period between the end of their inpatient treatment and the start
of their outpatient treatment, or after they have used all the outpatient
therapy visits allotted by their health insurance, could improve outcomes. We
recently studied the use of the FitMi sensors in conjunction with an
activity-management app to assist in home rehabilitation.