Amrita Hospital introduces gait training robot for rehabilitation patients
Amrita Hospital in Kerala’s Kochi city has started adopting a robotic gait training system to aid in the rehabilitation of brain and spinal cord injury survivors.
G-Gaiter, developed by local startup Gen Robotics, offers an immersive rehabilitation experience through virtual reality. It also trains patients to walk longer and be less dependent.
According to a press release, the hospital provides robot trainers with additional services, including neurotherapy, noninvasive brain stimulation, and multimodal spasticity management.
HKUMed conducts the first robot-assisted spine surgery in Hong Kong
Surgeons at the University of Hong Kong have developed robot-assisted technology for spine surgery.
The first use case in Hong Kong, the robotic system enables more accurate and precise screw placement, traditionally performed by freehand technique by a skilled surgeon to facilitate spinal adjustment or fusion. It comes with preoperative surgical planning software that helps determine the best implant strategy based on spinal CT images.
This technology has “improved the precision and safety of instruments in spine surgery, reduced the rate of revision surgery, increased surgical efficiency, reduced post-operative complications, and reduced hospital stay.” Dr. Kenny Kwan Yat-hong, Head of Spine Surgery, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the School of Clinical Medicine at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed).
According to a media statement, 20 robot-assisted spine surgeries have been performed since the robotic system was introduced last October.
Japan’s MHLW launches online directory of obstetrics clinics
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has launched a new website providing information on medical facilities that provide childbirth services.
According to the press release, the web platform lists each facility’s location, outpatient admission hours, number of physicians, number of births per year, services provided and estimated costs for services. their service.
Users can search by region to find a birthing facility that meets their needs. Some 2,043 facilities nationwide, of which 96% deliver more than 21 children per year, are currently listed on the website.
NCD risk prediction model project exceeds target of 10,000
A pan-India study that sought to collect extensive health data to build chronic disease risk prediction models recently concluded its first phase.
National R&D organization Council of Scientific and Industrial Research announced that it has achieved its goal of collecting 10,000 health information samples, including clinical data, pathology reports, lifestyle and eating habits abstinence, from volunteer participants across 17 states.
Launched late last year, the PI-CheCK (Phenome India-CSIR Medical Cohort Knowledge Base) project aims to develop a risk prediction model for non-communicable diseases, especially diabetes. sugar, liver disease and heart disease, exclusively for Indians. According to the researchers, current models are based on epidemiological data from the Caucasian population, which may not be representative of the Indian population.
