Induced Acceleration Analysis for Rehabilitation

描述(申请人提供)：康复领域面临的一个主要挑战是衡量和预测身体残疾、功能障碍和残疾人士的改善情况。功能动作分析是解开这些秘密的关键。 C-Motion的Visual3D临床运动分析软件结合了三维运动学和逆动力学分析，并通过广泛的数据报告和可视化工具补充了这些技术。Visual3D满足了患者护理专业人员的所有传统需求，他们需要一种低成本、易用、多功能的软件包，能够分析各种功能运动任务。该SBIR项目的目标是将诱导加速度分析和相关的功率流分析作为C-Motion的Visual3D软件的一个组件来实施，并将这一新的分析作为临床研究工具。据我们所知，没有任何临床运动分析软件的商业供应商有能力执行诱导加速和功率流分析。 这些技术具有重要的临床价值。扩展Visual3D软件以包括这些技术将使运动障碍分析方面的创新成为可能，最大限度地提高复杂分析技术的效率，并使不同诊所和研究机构之间的数据解释保持一致。这项第二阶段的申请遵循了第一阶段研究的成功结论和令人鼓舞的结果，在第一阶段研究中，C-Motion根据Visual3D软件中计算的净关节力矩，开发了基于运动捕捉的诱导加速度和功率流分析。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major challenge facing the rehabilitation field is measuring and predicting improvements of people with physical impairments, functional limitations and disabilities. Functional movement analysis is a key to unlocking these secrets. C-Motion's Visual3D clinical movement analysis software incorporates three-dimensional kinematics and inverse dynamics analyses and supplements these techniques through extensive data reporting and visualization tools. Visual3D meets all of the traditional needs of patient care professionals who require a low-cost, easy-to-use, versatile software package that is capable of analyzing a wide range of functional movement tasks. The objective of this SBIR project is to implement Induced Acceleration analysis and the related Power Flow analysis as a component of C-Motion's Visual3D software and to make this new analysis available as a clinical research tool. We are not aware of any commercial vendor of clinical movement analysis software that has the capability of performing an Induced Acceleration and Power Flow analysis. These techniques are of significant clinical value. Expanding the Visual3D software to include these techniques will enable innovations in the analysis of movement disorders, maximize the efficiency of sophisticated analysis techniques, and enable consistency in data interpretation between different clinics and research institutions. This Phase II request follows the successful conclusion and encouraging results of the Phase I study in which C-Motion developed a motion capture-based, Induced Acceleration and Power Flow analysis based on the net joint moments calculated in the Visual3D software.