Cameras in physical therapy clinics will play a key role in the outpatient PT department in the future. But, as they say, the future is already here, it’s just not well-distributed, yet: Computer vision is a type of artificial intelligence that can capture a patient image, measure the Sway Angle and quickly categorize the patient…
We try not to overthink this part: What’s the problem we’re trying to solve with computer vision in physical therapy? Americans are falling down; there is an epidemic of falls in older people: We want to make injurious falls in older people more detectable with more testing. If people are at risk, we’d like to…
The Capstone Project for DPTs “PTs treat People, Machines collect Data.” Collect data the old fashioned way (questionnaires, surveys, polls, etc) or collect data for your Capstone Project with a mobile app using AI Computer Vision, that contributes to a functional outcome. Computer Vision data collection using mobile device cameras is the future of physical…
“The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed,” said the dystopian author William Gibson. How can you profit from this knowledge of the future? Or, if you have a different risk aversion preference; how can you avoid being disrupted by seismic changes in the job market? One profit-optimization pathway would be to learn…
On the other hand, physical therapy is well-positioned to benefit from AI. Have you ever gotten a spinal manipulation from a robot?
