Flok Health: Developing a pocket physiotherapist to deliver personalised healthcare at population scale

Flok Health：开发袖珍物理治疗师以在人口规模上提供个性化医疗保健

• 批准号: 10100082
• 金额: $ 44.57万
• 依托单位: FLOK HEALTH LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10100082
• 关键词: Flok; Health; Developing; pocket; physiotherapist

Flok is developing a game-changing platform for end-to-end physiotherapy provision, with advanced algorithmic decision-making and ground-breaking responsive video-streamed exercise prescription and pain management. These technologies simulate the experience of a personal physiotherapist, enabling care delivery at population-scale. Patients get immediate access to engaging, completely personalised, gold standard treatment for their back pain, with no waiting lists for GP/physiotherapy appointments.Chronic back pain is the leading cause of disability globally, the number one cause of sick leave and premature exit from the workforce in Europe, with enormous social impact including increased depression risk reduced quality of life. Direct healthcare costs are £12.3bn/year in UK and $135bn/year in US. The profoundly damaging impacts are avoidable with fast access to the right treatment, however current NHS waiting lists are 14+ weeks, during which 20% of patients develop chronic pain. Once seen, demands on the NHS mean patients are typically offered just 1-2 physiotherapy appointments, printouts of generic exercises, no supporting psychological interventions, and no monitoring or treatment adjustments. There is urgent need for better care, and the NHS is set to invest £310m into digital solutions for musculoskeletal care and depression.Flok was co-founded by a former athlete upon realising that where elite athletes can receive immediate, highly personalised care and return to competition within a week, normal patients are waiting months for inadequate treatment, and many are avoidably developing chronic pain. Flok's mission is to put the world's best physiotherapy clinic in the pocket of everyone who needs it.Flok has an initial "digital physiotherapist," tested within the NHS, but the current version can only support a small number of simultaneous users. This project will develop the technology needed to deliver care at population scale, with 10,000s of simultaneous users accessing our responsive physiotherapy, and data-driven automation to improve engagement and outcomes.

Flok正在开发一个改变游戏规则的平台，用于端到端的物理治疗提供，具有先进的算法决策和突破性的响应式视频流运动处方和疼痛管理。这些技术模拟个人物理治疗师的经验，使护理服务能够在人口规模。患者可以立即获得针对背痛的完全个性化的黄金标准治疗，无需等待全科医生/物理治疗预约。慢性背痛是全球残疾的主要原因，也是欧洲病假和过早退出劳动力市场的头号原因，具有巨大的社会影响，包括抑郁风险增加，生活质量降低。英国的直接医疗成本为123亿英镑/年，美国为1350亿美元/年。通过快速获得正确的治疗，可以避免深刻的破坏性影响，但目前的NHS等待名单为14周以上，在此期间，20%的患者会出现慢性疼痛。一旦看到，对NHS的要求意味着患者通常只提供1-2次物理治疗预约，一般运动的原则，没有支持性的心理干预，也没有监测或治疗调整。人们迫切需要更好的护理，英国国民健康服务体系（NHS）将投资3.1亿英镑用于肌肉骨骼护理和抑郁症的数字解决方案。Flok由一位前运动员联合创立，他意识到，精英运动员可以立即获得高度个性化的护理，并在一周内重返赛场，而普通患者则需要等待数月才能获得充分的治疗，许多人还在不可避免地发展慢性疼痛。Flok的使命是把世界上最好的理疗诊所放在每个需要它的人的口袋里，Flok有一个最初的“数字理疗师”，在NHS内部进行了测试，但目前的版本只能支持少量的同时使用者。该项目将开发在人口规模上提供护理所需的技术，同时有10，000名用户访问我们的响应式物理治疗，以及数据驱动的自动化，以提高参与度和结果。