This week, Thom visited Therapy Services at the Children’s Hospital, and had the chance to observe two patients with movement problems. He shadowed during wheelchair consultations and had the opportunity to learn more about how wheelchair components are selected and formed for patients, as well as the types of movement difficulties that patients deal with. We plan to follow up with one of the physical therapists, Beth O’Neal, about other chances to observe patients, specifically patients with movement problems that are directly relevant to our goals. We also plan to shadow during physical therapy sessions sometime in the next two weeks in order to better understand current treatments and how we could develop a device to contribute to physical therapy outcomes at home.
We also continued working on brainstorming this week. We plan to develop several Pugh charts in order to account for the different components of the project we need to solve - obtaining data on head position, providing feedback to the patient, and reporting data to clinicians. Our website, which was submitted on Sunday, will continue to be updated as we progress. Comments are closed.
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Thom Ellison, Emma Huff, Katelyn Miyasaki Archives
April 2019
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