11.17 Support During Rehabilitation

While an athletes recovering, from an injury is assigned a personal fitness instructor during their rehabilitation the typical patient must make due with an occasional visit to a physiotherapist. There are, however, a number of devices on the market that help a person maintain an exercise regime. An example of such a device is the ‘Forerunner’ which uses GPS and a virtual personal fitness instructor to encourage the patient to maintain a predefined pace during exercising. It is likely that manufacturers of such devices will attempt to broaden the market for such devices by incorporating features that can be used is a number of rehabilitation scenarios.

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