Biostrain - development of a novel medical device for measuring and stabilising core-muscle imbalances, from lumbar-patients to elite-athletes.

**我们经验丰富且久经考验的团队正在开发Biostrain，这是一种新型的医疗设备，使临床医生和用户能够诊断和治疗导致下背部疼痛、脊柱和腿筋损伤的肌肉群失衡。这项突破性的新技术将提供比现有技术更大的优势，从中风患者到背痛患者，从骨科专家到业余和精英运动人士。该解决方案的市场吸引力已经通过严格的客户发现得到了证明。该设备使用简单，将与经过验证的医疗设备开发合作伙伴Lucid集团合作，在英国开发，制造和分销。Biostrain解决了更广泛的经济和社会挑战，包括英国工业战略和NHS预防保健的长期优先事项，专注于帮助人们保持活跃，减少对使人衰弱的伤害的易感性。下背部疼痛在1990-2010年间增加了12%，尤其是40-60岁的人群。由此产生的生产损失成本为每年107亿英镑，而NHS的成本超过20亿英镑。鉴于新冠疫情和在家办公的增加，该项目尤其及时。由于姿势不当，预计未来几年，在家办公将导致腰背部投诉增加。重量轻，便携性允许患者在家使用，而临床医生可以通过云上传监测进展。在运动中，使用者将获得比其他任何腘绳肌锻炼或监测方法更真正的优势。这将使运动员和临床医生显著降低腿筋受伤的风险，改善现有损伤的恢复，并提高健康运动员的表现和速度。

**Public description**Our experienced and proven team is developing Biostrain, a novel medical device to enable clinicians and users to diagnose and treat imbalances in muscle groups known to cause lower-back pain, spinal and hamstring injuries.This groundbreaking new technology will offer major advantages over current techniques, from a wide variety of users from stroke patients to back pain sufferers, to orthopaedic specialists and amateur & elite sports-people. The market-pull for this solution have been proven through rigorous customer discovery.The device is simple to use, and will be developed, manufactured & distributed within the UK in collaboration with proven medical device development partner Lucid Group.Biostrain addresses wider economic and social challenges including UK Industrial Strategy and NHS long-term priorities for preventive healthcare, focus on helping people keep active, reducing susceptibility to debilitating injury. Lower-back-pain increased 12% 1990-2010, particularly in 40-60 year-olds. Resultant production-loss cost were £10,7Bn/year with NHS costs exceeding £2Bn. The project is particularly timely with regard to the Covid pandemic, and the increase in home-working, which is expected to produce an increase in lower back complaints in the coming years, due to poor posture.Lightweight and portability allows for patient home use whilst clinicians can monitor progression via cloud upload.In sports, users will be offered a genuine advantage over any other method of hamstring exercise or monitoring. This will enable sportspeople and clinicians to significantly reduce the risk of hamstring injury, improve recovery for existing injuries, and improve performance & speed in healthy athletes.