Software Improves Rehabilitation Techniques
From: The Engineer (UK) - 05/17/2010

Clear and simple visualizations of biomechanical data could improve
rehabilitation after a stroke, accelerate the recovery from joint
replacements, and prevent older people from falling, according to United
Kingdom researchers. University of Strathclyde professor Philip Rowe is
leading an initiative to develop bespoke software for capturing biomechanical
data and presenting it in a way that would assist health care professionals
in their effort to communicate movement information to patients. Currently,
movement information is only available in graphical, tabular, or numerical
form. The software would work with Strathclyde's specialist motion analysis
system and portable motion sensors. "By using animation, we can enable
patients to visualize a movement, and how it affects their body," Rowe says. 

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Links:
Bioengineering Visualises Better Care
http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/faculties/engineering/newsletter/2010/April_2010.html

Lifelong Health and Wellbeing
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Ourresearch/ResearchInitiatives/LLHW/index.htm

Philip Rowe
http://www.strath.ac.uk/bioeng/staff/rowephilipprof/