Greenville Shriners Children’s Motion Analysis Center is digitally integrating with 13 similar Shriners facilities to form the world’s largest unified pediatric motion analysis system, the nonprofit health care system announced March 11.
According to the announcement, the change will make it easier for doctors across the entire Shriners health care system to share data, learn from past patient experiences, inform future care decisions and perform cutting-edge research.
“This is truly a groundbreaking advancement for Shriners Children’s because it means that patients, doctors, physical therapists, engineers and other Shriners Children’s staff can now analyze thousands of new data points and previous pediatric cases to make the most informed decisions on how they treat children, regardless of which hospital they were treated at,” said Marc Lalande, Shriners Children’s vice president of research.
Motion analysis is a technology that uses data to help analyze how a child walks and moves. Shriners Children’s uses high-speed cameras, reflective markers, force platforms and muscle sensors to record a child’s movement patterns.
The data is then analyzed using computer-generated imagery similar to what you might see in a video game, to model the child’s gait and allow doctors to compare it to a patient without a gait difference.
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