MSK Therapy Platform With Adaptive Feedback for Long-Term Adherence
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise therapy programs face challenges in maintaining patient adherence due to boredom, lack of noticeable improvement, and forgetfulness, leading to difficulty in achieving long-term MSK function improvement.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented therapy platform that provides personalized feedback, tailors exercise programs based on patient performance data, and offers gamification and digital rewards to incentivize consistent engagement and adherence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If exercise therapy programs start slowly with low-intensity physical activities and gradually increase intensity, then patients avoid over-exercising and injury, but adherence becomes difficult to maintain over several months or years due to boredom, lack of noticeable improvement, or forgetfulness
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts exercise program characteristics based on patient performance data, automatically modifying intensity, duration, and exercise selection to maintain optimal challenge levels. This dynamic adaptation prevents boredom while ensuring progressive overload, sustaining patient engagement over extended periods without requiring manual program redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where patient performance data is collected, analyzed, and used to generate personalized feedback and adjust subsequent exercise prescriptions. This feedback mechanism helps patients notice improvement through visible progress tracking, motivating continued adherence over the long term.
2Ease of operation
If exercise therapy programs are personalized and continuously adapted based on patient performance data, then patient engagement and adherence improve, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-adjustment by automatically analyzing patient performance data and modifying exercise programs without requiring manual intervention from healthcare providers. This self-service capability reduces operational complexity while maintaining high personalization levels, making the system easier to implement and sustain.
Solution Approach 2:
The system integrates multiple functions including data collection, performance analysis, program generation, real-time monitoring, and automatic adjustment within a single unified platform. This multi-functionality consolidates complexity into one system rather than requiring separate tools for each task, improving ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Introduced here are computer-implemented platforms (also referred to as “therapy platforms”) that are designed to improve adherence to, and success of, exercise therapy programs assigned to patients for completion. As part of an exercise therapy program, a patient may be requested to engage with a therapy platform. An exercise therapy program normally comprises a number of exercise therapy sessions in which the patient is instructed to perform physical activities. For example, the patient may be instructed to perform a series of exercises over the course of an exercise therapy session. The therapy platform can assist the patient by actively guiding her through the exercise therapy session.