Surefooted Fall Simulation Training

踏实跌倒模拟训练

• 批准号: 9901650
• 负责人: Udai Jayakumar
• 金额: $ 5.5万
• 依托单位: SUREFOOTED, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-30 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9901650
• 关键词: Adverse event; Algorithms; Automation; Back; Balance training; Cause of Death; Clinical; Communities; Cues; Data; Data Collection; Devices; Educational Intervention; Effectiveness; Elderly; Equilibrium; Equipment; Exposure to; Face; Fall injury; Fall prevention; Fatigue; Feedback; Financial Hardship; Gait; Goals; Health; Injury; International; Interruption; Intervention; Knowledge; Learning; Legal patent; Length; Life; Longevity; Measures; Methods; Minor; Modality; Motor; Outcome; Patients; Phase; Physical therapy; Preventive; Principal Investigator; Protocols documentation; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Resistance; Risk; Safety; Sensory; Series; Serious Adverse Event; Severities; Slide; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Societies; Specificity; Surface; System; Time; Training; Translating; Visual; Walking; Work; aged; clinical practice; community setting; experience; falls; foot; gait rehabilitation; human old age (65+); improved; kinematics; novel; off-patent; patient response; prototype; randomized trial; simulation; skills; standard of care; technological innovation; user-friendly

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Surefooted LLC is developing a novel type of physical therapy equipment with the potential to revolutionize fall prevention, the Surefooted Trainer (“Trainer”). 1 in 3 senior citizens experience a fall each year and falls are the leading cause of death by an injury among those aged 65 and older. Current treatments to prevent falls are inadequate. The Trainer consists of a 12 by 3-foot platform with interchangeable surface plates. The entire platform shifts abruptly to produce perturbations as a user walks back and forth on it whilst protected by an overhead harness. The Trainer aims to improve subjects’ balance skills that are both anticipatory (using visual cues such as seeing an obstacle) and reactive (e.g. after experiencing a sudden perturbation). Dynamic gait training (i.e. user is walking) has been shown to be more effective than static balance training. The Surefooted Trainer will potentially increase subjects’ resistance to falls for a long period after a single training session. The first specific aim is to improve the durability of the Trainer and automate the training protocol. The second aim is to determine the effectiveness of a 30-minute session on the Trainer during which subjects are exposed to 6 different conditions. The Surefooted Trainer is currently patent pending (US Utility and international PCT applications were filed in 2/2016). After demonstrating the Trainer’s effectiveness, Surefooted LLC plans to bring the device to the market and anticipates that it will become the standard of care in preventive health for people at risk of suffering falls.

项目摘要/摘要 脚踏实地的有限责任公司正在开发一种新型的理疗设备，有可能 革命性的防摔倒，脚踏实地的训练者(“训练者”)。三分之一的老年人有这样的经历 在65岁和65岁以上的老年人中，每年的跌倒和跌倒是伤害死亡的主要原因 年纪更大了。目前预防跌倒的治疗方法是不够的。训练师由一个12英尺乘3英尺的人组成 具有可互换面板的平台。整个平台突然转移到生产 当用户在头顶安全带保护下在其上来回行走时，会产生扰动。这个 Trader的目标是提高受试者的平衡技能，既具有预见性(使用视觉线索，如 如看到障碍)和反应性(例如，在经历突然的扰动之后)。动态步态 训练(即用户行走)已被证明比静态平衡训练更有效。 脚踏实地的训练师可能会在以后很长一段时间内增加受试者的抗跌倒能力 一堂训练课。第一个具体目标是提高训练器的耐用性和 自动执行培训方案。第二个目标是确定30分钟的训练效果 在训练器上，受试者暴露在6种不同的条件下。这个 稳健的训练器目前正在申请专利(美国公用事业公司和国际PCT申请 2016年2月2日提交)。在展示了培训师的有效性后，Stefed LLC计划将 该设备将推向市场，并预计它将成为预防性护理的标准 有遭受痛苦风险的人的健康会下降。