Compliance and Posture Monitor

描述(由申请人提供)：这项提案的目标是建立和测试一个依从性和姿势传感器，用于连接到矫形支架或直接连接到身体上。该传感器将测量和存储有关坚持支具治疗和肢体倾斜的信息。将开发适当的传感器来测量人类的接近程度和倾斜度，并将其包装在一个足够小的模块中，以便连接到支架上或直接由人佩戴。 最终目标是开发一种临床工具，客观和远程地测量患者对处方支具治疗的遵从性，并远程测量患者在接受监测时的姿势和活动水平。这些信息将在评估结果、支架治疗、手术和其他治疗干预方面有价值。脊柱侧弯支撑将是顺应性测量的主要目标。人们希望这种小型传感器将成为脊柱侧弯支具处方的标准部分，它不仅可以测量依从性，还可以增加依从性。 第一阶段研究的成果将是建造和测试传感器和记录仪组合的原型。这将测量人在传感器附近的存在和传感器的倾斜度。将建造两个原型单元。对这些单元的测试将在五个科目上进行。一旦在人体受试者身上证明了技术上的可行性，将在赠款的第二阶段进行临床试验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to build and test a compliance and posture sensor for attachment to an orthopedic brace or directly to the body. This sensor will measure and store information on adherence to brace treatment and inclination of a limb. The appropriate sensors to measure human proximity, as well as inclination, will be developed and packaged in a module small enough to be attached to a brace or worn directly by the person. The ultimate goals are to develop a clinical tool that objectively and remotely measures compliance with prescribed brace treatment and to remotely measure what posture the person was in while being monitored and the level of activity they performed. This information would be valuable in assessing the outcome a brace treatment, surgery and other therapeutic interventions. Scoliosis bracing will be a major target for compliance measurement. It is hoped this small sensor will become a standard part of the scoliosis brace prescription that will not only measure compliance but increase it too. The deliverables from the phase I study will be the construction and testing of a prototype sensor and logger combination. This will measure presence of the human in close proximity to the sensor and the inclination of the sensor. Two prototype units will be constructed. Tests of the units will be carried out on five subjects. Once technical feasibility has been demonstrated with human subjects a clinical trial will be undertaken in phase II of the grant.