Patent ID: 8678979

Claim:
A portable controller comprising: a keypad; a display; a communications port in communication with a remote health care facility through a communications channel, the communications port in communication with a sensor ambulatory with a patient that makes measurements of a physiological parameter of the patient; and a computer processor communicatively coupled to the display and the sensor, the processor configured to: prompt the patient to perform exercises in the form of a video game, the exercises selected by the computer processor from one of at least two sets of exercise routines programmed into the computer processor, the selection based upon the time elapsed since the start of a rehabilitation period, send signals to the display that cause the display to show an object of the video game at a location on the display, the location the object is displayed at is a function of a signal received from the sensor, the signal received from the sensor is received in response to the patient attempting to perform the exercises, present inquiries on the display and receive answers on the keypad, correlate the answers and the measured physiological parameter of the patient with a time period, and transmit the answers and measured physiological parameter over the communications channel to the remote health care facility, wherein the inquiries comprise questions related to mental attitude of the patient; and wherein the processor is configured to be reprogrammable at a location remote from the controller.