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Brain stroke is one of the diseases that were intensely studied in the recent years, resulting in a better understanding of its causes, etiology and prognosis. Subsequently, in the last decade a number of innovative treatments of ??stroke patients have significantly improved patients odds to survive and continue with their productive lives. While most of these improvements were related to brain stroke treatments, quite a few were focused on patients’ rehabilitation and their return to normal lives. Despite all the technology and improved life standards the number of stroke patients is increasing. As it stands today, about one third of stroke patients gradually recover, another third will experience mild to severe disability and still one third will die. Our primary interest lies with those patients that are disabled in some form and forced to undergo a long and tedious rehabilitation treatment. One way to speed up their recovery is by applying new technologies that can help patients in physical therapy consisting mainly on exercises that can be monitored remotely or by an autonomous system. In this case, a Microsoft Kinect technology has been chosen as a platform for such a system.