Chronic-Pain Protective Behavior Detection with Deep Learning

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In chronic pain rehabilitation, physiotherapists adapt physical activity to patients' performance based on their expression of protective behavior, gradually exposing them to feared but harmless and essential everyday activities.

• As rehabilitation moves outside the clinic, technology should automatically detect such behavior to provide similar support.
• Previous works have shown the feasibility of automatic protective behavior detection (PBD) within a specific activity.
• In this paper, we investigate the use of deep learning for PBD across activity types, using wearable motion capture and surface electromyography data collected from healthy participants and people with chronic pain.