Dynamics application is a neurological rehabilitation aid for stroke patients
Artificial Intelligence is bursting into the world of medicine to improve the lives of patients. As reported by Ana Martín in Noticias Cuatro, efforts are now being focused on patients who have suffered a stroke. Researchers from several Andalusian universities have presented the Dynamics application, which helps neurological rehabilitation.
José Luis Torres is a technical architect and suffered a stroke: "At first you are a kind of doll that they dress you, wash you, feed you, because you are not capable. Six months ago he had three strokes that have left him with numerous sequelae. José Luis adds that his entire right side is paralyzed.
Pilar Juárez is 58 years old and also suffered a stroke. She shows her helplessness when she recalls with difficulty that five months ago she was cooking when it happened to her: "Without ever stopping and all of a sudden my life came to a complete halt".
"It's a supplement that greatly enhances the benefits we were getting."
José Luis and Pilar are two of the 94 stroke patients who have just started a different kind of rehabilitation. Francisco Amaro, professor and researcher at the University of Granada, comments: "It is an additional complement that greatly improves the benefits we were previously obtaining.
Alberto Soriano, professor at the University of Almeria, says: "What real impact can virtual reality have on people who have suffered a stroke? Thanks to this software, the patient puts on virtual reality goggles and will be able to do any task at home or immerse themselves in a science fiction scenario, because for them no task will be impossible.
With Dynamics software you can work on balance, memory or language.
Fernando Morales, co-founder of Dynamics, says: "We try to evoke feelings and emotions from the past so that they are not only being rehabilitated, but that it is attractive to them". This is the first software specifically for people who have suffered a stroke. Thanks to it, they can work on balance, memory and language.
Inmaculada Villegas, a neurologist at the Hospital Clínico de Granada, explains that stroke is the leading cause of disability in adults. Faced with a saturated healthcare system, this new software becomes the perfect complement to improve the quality of life of a disease that affects 90,000 people in Spain every year.
The development of this software allows for individualized progress
The development of this software allows for individualized progress, because patients will make progress in the tasks they complete and will be able to repeat the tasks they did not manage to complete in previous sessions. The software will have ten therapeutic modules that have been designed to treat ten areas of disability related to stroke.
The period for its development will be approximately 18 months and the following 18 months will be used to carry out the clinical trial, which will begin next June. This program will be registered under an intellectual property license and is intended to be acquired and implemented by national and international healthcare services.
