Avoiding the onslaught of musculoskeletal conditions caused by Covid-19 isolation using computer vision based musculoskeletal diagnostic tools

Covid-19危机是我们卫生系统70年来面临的最大挑战。绝大多数努力都正确地集中在拯救生命上。然而，至关重要的是，我们要减轻危机的中长期冲击效应，并为此做好准备。这些影响之一是大量增加的肌肉骨骼问题，如背痛。数以千万计的人被限制在家工作，成千上万的肌肉骨骼手术或治疗患者被搁置，大多数人的久坐行为大幅增加，如果我们不采取干预措施，这种肌肉骨骼问题的雪崩是不可避免的。该项目将利用Vitrue现有的肌肉骨骼诊断技术，通过进一步创新来减少上述所有三个问题，而不需要任何专业设备，这意味着它将对整个人群开放。此外，该项目将产生可在国际上商业化的产品，作为白色标签工具提供给医疗保健提供者和NHS，以减轻Covid - 19危机给肌肉骨骼健康服务带来的巨大压力。

The Covid-19 crisis represents the largest challenge to our health system in seventy years. The vast majority of efforts are rightly focused on saving lives. However it is crucial that we mitigate and prepare for the medium and long term knock on effects of the crisis. One of these effects in the massive increase in musculoskeletal problems such as back pain. With tens of millions of people confined to working from home, tens of thousands of patients with musculoskeletal surgeries or treatments put on hold and the sedentary behaviours of most of the population massively increased, this avalanche of musculoskeletal issues is inevitable if we do nothing to intervene.This project will capitalise on Vitrue's existing musculoskeletal diagnostic technology by innovating further to reduce all three of the problems introduced above without the need for any specialist equipment meaning it will be accessible to the population as a whole. Additionally the project will result in products that can be commercialised internationally, provided as white labelled tools for healthcare providers and to the NHS to alleviate the massive strain placed on musculoskeletal health services by the Covid 19 crisis.