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Currently, there are many numbers of patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) which is the most common joint pain of osteoarthritis (OA). Joint stiffness and pain in the knee are the KOA symptoms depending on many causes. There are 13% of women, 10% of 60 years and older than 70 years men, the prevalence rises to 40%. Males are prevalent lower than in females [9]. This makes the number of doctors and medical assistance who specialize in monitoring the treatment inadequate for patients’ proportion. In addition, problems in patients’ accommodation are the long-distance travel, rural area, insecure route issue, e.g., in southern of Thailand, transportation, and requesting a helper or caregivers accompany to see a doctor every period. Therefore, this research approaches Internet of Things (IoT) technology with physical stabilization knee support as electronic medical records (EMR) on a website monitoring the KOA patients’ treatment results. The direct benefit is to increase the accuracy of the remote measurement, to analysis of symptoms and to facilitate the follow-up of medical treatment and improve the quality of rural patients’ life. |
