Deans' stroke musings: New remote PT and AI wearable helps stroke patients to walk more easily

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, September 30, 2021

New remote PT and AI wearable helps stroke patients to walk more easily

You can tell the competency of your hospital by how long it takes to bring this in. Anything longer than 2 months is total incompetence, your board of directors needs to be fired.

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New remote PT and AI wearable helps stroke patients to walk more easily

yDr. Tim Sandle

Published

September 26, 2021

People who have experienced neurological conditions such as strokes, multiple sclerosis, or Parkinson’s disease, tend to drag their affected foot. These are termed functional gait disorders.

To help address this, a new wearable device, called the EvoWalk, which is used in conjunction with a remote physical therapy platform, has been developed by Evolution Devices. The company was founded by Pier Mantovani.

The objective of the new technology is to make an improvement with a person’s mobility. The device uses machine learning to bypass the leg nerve. The foot can be lifted at just the right time to help users avoid falls and walk more freely.

Inspiration for the device came about when the founder’s father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and he struggled to walk. Physical therapy was critical for addressing the issue. However, getting to the health clinic in person proved not to be easy.

Looking at the experience and the associated issues, Mantovani devised the wearable and founded Evolution Devices, a company that combines the new, virtual physical therapy platform paired with the wearable.

This holistic approach of combining remote physical therapy with an artificial intelligence powered stimulation device and patient app to personalize care is not currently available with any other fall-prevention or rehabilitation therapy.

With the EvoWalk platform, users are able to work with a neuro-certified physical therapists without having to go to therapy in person. Built-in sensors feed real-time motion data to artificial intelligence algorithms and provide actionable metrics through the connected mobile apps.

The EvoWalk device gathers detailed walking data and provides electrotherapy to stimulate muscles at the right time to rehab walking and prevent falls.

A video that shows the technology in action is available on YouTube.

Through this, dedicated physical therapists are able to work remotely with the patient every step of the way, adjusting the wearable as patients make progress.

Based on trials conducted ahead of the launch of the technology, pilot users have seen an up to tenfold increase in walking activity.

The launch of the new device was on September 21^st, 2021. The launch was supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Toyota Mobility Foundation among others.