This paper reviews technical and clinical impact of theMicrosoft Kinect in physical therapy and rehabilitation. It covers the studies\non patients with neurological disorders including stroke, Parkinson�s, cerebral palsy, and MS as well as the elderly patients. Search\nresults in Pubmed andGoogle scholar reveal increasing interest in usingKinect in medical application. Relevant papers are reviewed\nand divided into three groups: (1) papers which evaluated Kinect�s accuracy and reliability, (2) papers which used Kinect for a\nrehabilitation system and provided clinical evaluation involving patients, and (3) papers which proposed a Kinect-based system for\nrehabilitation but fell short of providing clinical validation. At last, to serve as technical comparison to help future rehabilitation\ndesign other sensors similar to Kinect are reviewed.
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