TracPatch uses a chest sensor to track spine health through posture, step velocity, and other metrics, creating a continuous mobility score like a glucose monitor. Lumbar stenosis shows a specific pattern of five or six measures. The system measures whether patients improve over time, not which exercises to do.
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Yeah, so the spine application is a little different in that what we're doing is we're not looking at range of motion, for example. We're looking at bio— the bio signals, the wrong term. We're looking for the combination of different metrics that are associated with a given pathology. And so you can do it with a single point IMU as long as it's mounted in a right place. So in our case, it's on the chest. And what we're doing is, is looking at metrics such as posture deviation, step velocity, step counts, and looking at those in certain ratios that are related to specific pathologies. So in the case of like lumbar stenosis, we have these metrics that are allowed for us to basically take like 5 or 6 different metrics and combine them into a number. And then that number you track over time. It more or less, I'm calling it as an analog to a continuous glucose monitor, but it's more like a continuous mobility monitor. And so it's less of, you're not trying to do a bunch of exercises with it. You're trying to use it as an evaluation to see, are you getting better or worse, or is something progressing in a positive or negative direction? Similar to like a glucose monitor in that way. But in that case, you may be like, looking at how you, you respond to certain foods. Well, we could do that with certain exercises or injections or those other things, but this will be the ground truth of are you moving better or not.