Flok Health: Developing a pocket physiotherapist to deliver personalised healthcare at population scale

Flok Health：开发袖珍物理治疗师以在人口规模上提供个性化医疗保健

• 批准号: 10100082
• 金额: $ 44.57万
• 依托单位: FLOK HEALTH LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10100082
• 关键词: Flok; Health; Developing; pocket; physiotherapist

Flok is developing a game-changing platform for end-to-end physiotherapy provision, with advanced algorithmic decision-making and ground-breaking responsive video-streamed exercise prescription and pain management. These technologies simulate the experience of a personal physiotherapist, enabling care delivery at population-scale. Patients get immediate access to engaging, completely personalised, gold standard treatment for their back pain, with no waiting lists for GP/physiotherapy appointments.Chronic back pain is the leading cause of disability globally, the number one cause of sick leave and premature exit from the workforce in Europe, with enormous social impact including increased depression risk reduced quality of life. Direct healthcare costs are £12.3bn/year in UK and $135bn/year in US. The profoundly damaging impacts are avoidable with fast access to the right treatment, however current NHS waiting lists are 14+ weeks, during which 20% of patients develop chronic pain. Once seen, demands on the NHS mean patients are typically offered just 1-2 physiotherapy appointments, printouts of generic exercises, no supporting psychological interventions, and no monitoring or treatment adjustments. There is urgent need for better care, and the NHS is set to invest £310m into digital solutions for musculoskeletal care and depression.Flok was co-founded by a former athlete upon realising that where elite athletes can receive immediate, highly personalised care and return to competition within a week, normal patients are waiting months for inadequate treatment, and many are avoidably developing chronic pain. Flok's mission is to put the world's best physiotherapy clinic in the pocket of everyone who needs it.Flok has an initial "digital physiotherapist," tested within the NHS, but the current version can only support a small number of simultaneous users. This project will develop the technology needed to deliver care at population scale, with 10,000s of simultaneous users accessing our responsive physiotherapy, and data-driven automation to improve engagement and outcomes.

Flok 正在开发一个改变游戏规则的端到端物理治疗平台，具有先进的算法决策和突破性的响应式视频流运动处方和疼痛管理，这些技术模拟个人物理治疗师的体验，从而实现护理服务。患者可以立即获得有吸引力的、完全个性化的、黄金标准的背痛治疗，无需等待全科医生/物理治疗预约。慢性背痛是全球残疾的主要原因，也是导致疾病的第一大原因。离开并提前退出欧洲的劳动力造成了巨大的社会影响，包括抑郁症风险增加，生活质量下降，英国每年的直接医疗费用为 123 亿英镑，美国每年为 1350 亿美元，如果能够快速获得正确的治疗，那么这种严重破坏性的影响是可以避免的。 ，然而，目前 NHS 的等候名单长达 14 周以上，在此期间，20% 的患者一旦就诊就会出现慢性疼痛，对 NHS 的要求意味着患者通常只能接受 1-2 次物理治疗预约、打印一般练习，没有支持性的心理干预，并且没有监控迫切需要更好的护理，NHS 将投资 3.1 亿英镑用于肌肉骨骼护理和抑郁症的数字解决方案。Flok 是由一位前运动员共同创立的，因为他意识到精英运动员可以立即获得高质量的治疗。个性化护理并在一周内重返比赛，正常患者需要等待数月才能获得不充分的治疗，许多人不可避免地会患上慢性疼痛。Flok 的使命是将世界上最好的物理治疗诊所放在每个需要它的人的口袋里。有一个最初的“数字物理治疗师”，在 NHS 内进行了测试，但当前版本只能支持少量的并发用户，该项目将开发在人口规模上提供护理所需的技术，有数以万计的并发用户访问我们的响应式服务。物理治疗和数据驱动的自动化，以提高参与度和结果。