Table 1.
Excerpt of the Ontology Requirements Specification Document defined for our ontology
| 1. | Purpose |
| The purpose of the TrhOnt ontology is to provide a reference model for the representation of the physiotherapy-related information that is needed for the whole physiotherapy treatment of a patient, since they step for the first time into the physiotherapist’s office, until they are discharged. | |
| 2. | Scope |
| The ontology will focus on physiotherapy issues related to the glenohumeral joint. | |
| 3. | Implementation language |
| The ontology has to be implemented in a formalism that allows classification of classes and realization between instances and classes. | |
| 4. | Intended Users |
| ∙User 1: Physiotherapists | |
| 5. | Intended uses |
| ∙Use 1: To record and search information about the items that compose the physiotherapy | |
| record of a patient. | |
| ∙Use 2: To help the process of defining general treatment protocols for a specific disorder, by | |
| selecting the exercises that must be performed in each phase of the protocol. | |
| ∙Use 3 To help the process of identifying in which phase of a treatment protocol a patient is at | |
| some specific moment. | |
| ∙Use 4: To identify which exercises are most suitable for a patient at some specific moment | |
| given all the information that it is known about him. | |
| 6. | Ontology requirements |
| (6.a) Non-functional requirements (not applicable) | |
| (6.b) Functional requirements: Groups of competency questions | |
| ∙CQG1: Physiotherapy record-related competency questions: | |
| −CQ1.1: What is the patient’s age? | |
| −CQ1.2: Which health issue does the patient report? | |
| −CQ1.3: Which are the patient’s recovery goals? | |
| −CQ1.4: How much pain does the patient report on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)? | |
| −CQ1.5: Which results are obtained from the exploration of the joint movement of the | |
| patient? | |
| −CQ1.6: What is the physiotherapy diagnostics of the patient? | |
| −CQ1.7: Which is the family and personal past history of the patient? | |
| −… | |
| ∙CQG2: Body-related competency questions: | |
| −CQ2.1: Which are the body parts that compose a more general body part? | |
| −CQ2.2: Which is the laterality of a specific body part? | |
| −… | |
| ∙CQG3: Treatment protocol-related competency questions: | |
| −CQ3.1: Which is the type of a movement? | |
| −CQ3.2: Which body part does a movement refer to? | |
| −CQ3.3: Which range of movement does a movement cover? | |
| −CQ3.4: Which movements compose an exercise? | |
| −CQ3.5: Which exercises compose a phase of a treatment protocol? | |
| −CQ3.6: Which are the conditions that an exercise must fulfill to be a candidate exercise for | |
| a phase of a treatment protocol? | |
| −… | |
| ∙CQG4: General competency questions: | |
| −CQ4.1: Which are the conditions that a patient must fulfill in order to be in a phase of a | |
| treatment protocol? | |
| −CQ4.2: Which phase is a patient in? | |
| −CQ4.3: Which exercises are recommended for a patient at some specific moment? | |
| −CQ4.4: Which exercises are contraindicated for a patient at some specific moment? | |
| −CQ4.5: Which exercises do patients usually perform badly? | |
| −… | |
| 7. | Pre-glossary of terms |
| Patient, goal, joint, movement, exercise, … |