Smart textiles for telerehabilitation

用于远程康复的智能纺织品

• 批准号: 570717-2021
• 负责人: Andrysek, JanJ
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=746152
• 关键词: Smart; textiles; telerehabilitation

Smart textiles are instrumented articles of clothing which can interact with their environment and the user. By integrating sensors into textiles, physiological signals such as activity level, heart rate and ECG can be captured. Such data can be imperative in providing patients and their health care providers with information about the changes in the patient's condition. For the rehabilitation of individuals' physical impairments, the ability to reliably assess changes in gait and gait quality outside of the clinical environment and directly capture real world functional performance has the potential to greatly improve personalization and efficiency of healthcare delivery.In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations around the world have been forced to use telehealth solutions to be able to continue to provide critical care to patients while maintaining social distancing and isolation. Telerehabilitation has emerged as a viable and desirable alternative to traditional in-person care. However, its adoption is still limited by the availability of technologies capable of unobtrusively and reliably measuring and monitoring a patient's health status. The technical and scientific challenges of this project and major potential for advancement lie in the development of a solution capable of detecting, analyzing and characterising complex movements of individuals with physical impairments in unpredictable environments. This project is possible through a strategic partnership between the University of Toronto, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and Myant Inc, an innovative Canadian technology disruptor. The partnership combines a multidisciplinary research team with experience in engineering solutions for rehabilitation, expert clinicians, and a globally recognized company producing leading edge textile-embedded medical devices. Our partnership aims to develop a smart textile product to revolutionize rehabilitation services in Canada and beyond our borders.

智能纺织品是一种可以与环境和用户互动的仪表化服装物品。通过将传感器集成到纺织品中，可以捕获活动水平、心率和心电等生理信号。在向患者及其医疗保健提供者提供有关患者病情变化的信息时，这些数据可能是必不可少的。对于个人身体障碍的康复，能够可靠地评估临床环境以外的步态和步态质量的变化，并直接捕获现实世界的功能表现，这有可能极大地提高医疗服务的个性化和效率。在新冠肺炎大流行之后，世界各地的医疗组织被迫使用远程医疗解决方案，以便能够在保持社会距离和孤立的同时继续为患者提供危重护理。远程康复已成为传统面对面护理的一种可行和可取的替代方案。然而，它的采用仍然受到能够不引人注目和可靠地测量和监测患者健康状况的技术的限制。该项目的技术和科学挑战以及进步的主要潜力在于开发一种解决方案，能够检测、分析和表征在不可预测的环境中有身体障碍的个人的复杂运动。多伦多大学、荷兰布鲁维尤儿童康复医院和加拿大创新技术颠覆者Myant Inc.之间的战略合作伙伴关系使该项目成为可能。这一合作伙伴关系将一支多学科的研究团队与康复工程解决方案方面的经验、专家临床医生以及一家生产尖端纺织品嵌入医疗设备的全球知名公司结合在一起。我们的合作伙伴关系旨在开发一种智能纺织品，以彻底改变加拿大国内外的康复服务。