QUANTATIVE MEASUREMENT OF LOW BACK IMPAIRMENT

腰部损伤的定量测量

• 批准号: 6550676
• 负责人: GEOFFREY M KOTZAR
• 金额: $ 20.08万
• 依托单位: ELECTROSONICS MEDICAL INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-19 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6550676
• 关键词: back injury; backache; bioengineering /biomedical engineering; biomechanics; biomedical equipment development; body movement; clinical research; diagnosis design /evaluation; orthopedics; patient monitoring device

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Injuries to the lower back are the second most prevalent disorder presented to medical practitioners today (second only to upper respiratory ailments) and are often the most difficult to diagnose or treat. The myriad of current methods used in evaluating lower back injuries and disorders (LBDs) are very subjective. Consequentially, the number of insurance claims and the amount of each claim push this ailments costs over the $100 billion mark in the US alone. There are no clinical methods/devices that remove the subjectivity from the assessment of impairment due to LBDs for most patients. A quantitative laboratory research tool (device) has been developed and shown to add objectivity to the evaluation of LBDs. One objective of this project is to update the technology, making a device suitable for clinical use. Another objective is to assess the new tool against the current one in the laboratory to assure that no feature of the original device has been lost or compromised. Based on this assessment, a clinically viable device will be available for the quantitative evaluation of LBDs, which promises to reduce the subjectivity of the clinical evaluation and the subsequent costs in treating the disorder. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: According to the U.S. Center for Healthcare Statistics, 80% of adults seek care for low back pain at some time in their lives, and 50% of adults have an episode of low back pain in any given year. The problem is wide spread, difficult to diagnose and expensive to treat. The potential markets for the device we propose to develop are physical therapy clinics, insurance companies, government organizations (NIOSH, OSHA, etc.), manufacturing companies (workplace assessment), orthopedic clinics, and companies that make office equiment (ergonomic assessment). Focussing only on the physical therapy clinics, there are over 98,000 such clinics according to data from the American Physical Therapy Association and the American Hospital Association. This number has remained relatively stable and could be expected to remain static over a forecast period of the next five years. Even with a small market penetration of only 0.1% per year, our sales can be expected to reach $2 million the first year and increase by $2 million per year over the next five years, for a total of 0.5% penetration and $10 million annually at the end of five years. At this rate, market saturation will not occur in any forseeable future.

描述（由申请人提供）：下背部的伤害是当今医生介绍的第二大普遍疾病（仅次于上呼吸道疾病），通常是最难诊断或治疗的最困难。评估下背部损伤和疾病（LBD）的无数当前方法非常主观。因此，仅在美国，保险索赔的数量和每项索赔的金额将其付出超过1000亿美元的大关。没有临床方法/设备可以从大多数患者的LBDS损伤评估中消除主观性。已经开发了一种定量实验室研究工具（设备），并显示出为LBD的评估增加客观性。该项目的一个目的是更新技术，使设备适合临床使用。另一个目的是评估针对实验室中当前的工具的新工具，以确保原始设备的特征没有丢失或损害。基于此评估，将可以使用临床上可行的装置来进行LBD的定量评估，该评估有望降低临床评估的主观性以及随后治疗该疾病的成本。 拟议的商业应用程序：根据美国医疗保健统计中心的数据，80％的成年人在生活中的某个时候寻求护理腰痛，而在任何一年中，有50％的成年人患有下腰痛。 这个问题是广泛的，难以诊断，并且治疗昂贵。 我们建议开发的设备的潜在市场是物理疗法诊所，保险公司，政府组织（NIOSH，OSHA等），制造公司（工作场所评估），骨科诊所以及进行办公公平的公司（人体工程学评估）。 根据美国物理治疗协会和美国医院协会的数据，仅关注物理治疗诊所，有98,000多个此类诊所。 这个数字仍然相对稳定，可以预期在未来五年的预测期内将保持静态。 即使每年的市场渗透率仅为0.1％，我们的销售额也可以在第一年达到200万美元，在未来五年内每年增长200万美元，在五年后每年总渗透率为0.5％，每年增加1000万美元。 以这种速度，在任何可预见的将来都不会发生市场饱和。