We try not to overthink this part: what’s the problem we’re trying to solve? Americans are falling down; there is an epidemic of falls in older people: We want to make injurious falls in older people detectable with more testing. VisualPT.ai has built a mobile app that is a 10x improvement in time and a…
The Capstone Project for DPTs “PTs treat People, Machines collect Data.” Collect data the old fashioned way or collect data for your Capstone Project with a mobile app, in a database, that contributes to an outcome. Computer Vision data collection using mobile device cameras is the future of physical therapy and we’d love to show…
“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…
How do we know an iPhone App can accurately measure the Clinical Test of Sensory Integration and Balance (CTSIB). From Condition One (eyes open, firm surface) to Condition Six (visual conflict, unstable surface) the task grows more difficult and we would expect the Trunk Sway (vertical axis) to increase. Trunk Sway is the inverse of…
VisualPT.ai is a Fall Risk Prediction tool for physical therapy patients. We use Computer Vision (a type of AI) in your iPhone camera to perform the Clinical Test of Sensory Integration and Balance (CTSIB). The CTSIB is the Gold Standard in Fall Risk Prediction – it’s the same test used in expensive force plate devices…
The competitive marketplace for physical therapy vestibular testing has four categories of competition: Status Quo: Do Nothing Status quo / Do Nothing is not a unique strategy in vestibular testing. ‘Do nothing’ is the #1 strategy patients and physicians use to manage most musculoskeletal, vestibular and pelvic floor problems. Estimates vary but different experts say…
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are…
On the other hand, physical therapy is well-positioned to benefit from AI. Have you ever gotten a spinal manipulation from a robot?
Hello and Welcome! Like you, I am a physical therapist. My name is Tim Richardson and I graduated in 1992 from the University of Florida (home of the fight’n Gators) with my PT degree. I have been in this wonderful profession full-time since then. I have seen many wonderful examples of physical therapy but I’ve…
VisualPT.ai will be the first computer vision technology in the outpatient vestibular space (to my knowledge) that also uses artificial intelligence to recognize risky gait patterns in patients who will fall but have not yet fallen down. Going first is hard. Pioneers often end up, not with the gold rush, but with arrows in their…
