Path Feel - a therapeutic wearable to reduce comorbidities in diabetes and improve quality of life

Path Feel - 一款治疗性可穿戴设备，可减少糖尿病合并症并提高生活质量

• 批准号: 830291
• 金额: $ 138.72万
• 依托单位: WALK WITH PATH LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Innovation Loans
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830291
• 关键词: Path; Feel; therapeutic; wearable; reduce

Walk With Path (WWP) is a health tech company which aims to empower and help people with chronic mobility conditions. In 2014 we launched Path Finder, a medical device alleviating freezing of gait in people with Parkinson's, commercially available in Europe, Canada and Australia. We are now working on the release of our second medical device, Path Feel, a smart insole-powered system helping people improve their balance and reduce the risk of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs).Of the c.4.5 million people with diabetes in the UK around 25% (1.125 million) will develop a DFU. A third of them don't heal, and a third lead to amputations which are followed by significantly increased mortality rates. DFUs are also a significant expense for the taxpayer, as they annually consume nearly 1% of the NHS budget.The current standard of care requires periodic clinic visits for foot assessments; the frequency depends on risk level (weekly to annually). This is a massive waste of both clinician and patient time as well as being ineffective - as evidenced by the high rates of amputations.Path Feel, our smart insole, is a disruptive solution to this problem. It combines DFU detection and prevention for high risk patients, and reduces late referral for cases who require DFU intervention. Path Feel captures temperature, pressure and gait metrics data in real-time via discrete sensors embedded in the insoles. In addition, its haptic feedback prevents falls in individuals with peripheral neuropathy.We are requesting a loan from Innovate UK to make the smart insole product more robust, more versatile and cheaper to manufacture. The proposed project involves late-stage R&D entailing improving the hardware, software and data analysis aspects of the product based on user feedback as well as making it more affordable for the NHS. As part of this project we will conduct clinical research to develop our second iteration of Path Feel incorporating AI analytics.We aim to deliver an invisible and intuitive user-centred solution that increases people's quality of life and independence whilst reducing healthcare costs. Our solution will tackle the sensory loss underlying increased fall risk in those with peripheral neuropathy, prevent DFUs and have a wide range of other applications as a lab-in-a-shoe for any studies associated with mobility disorders.

Walk With Path (WWP) 是一家健康科技公司，旨在为患有慢性行动不便的人们提供帮助。 2014 年，我们推出了 Path Finder，这是一种缓解帕金森病患者步态冻结的医疗设备，已在欧洲、加拿大和澳大利亚上市。我们现在正致力于发布第二款医疗设备 Path Feel，这是一种由鞋垫驱动的智能系统，可帮助人们改善平衡能力并降低患糖尿病足溃疡 (DFU) 的风险。在全球约 450 万糖尿病患者中，英国约 25%（112.5 万）将开发 DFU。其中三分之一无法治愈，三分之一导致截肢，随后死亡率显着增加。 DFU 对纳税人来说也是一笔巨额开支，因为它们每年消耗 NHS 预算的近 1%。当前的护理标准要求定期去诊所进行足部评估；频率取决于风险级别（每周到每年）。这不仅浪费了临床医生和患者的时间，而且效率低下，截肢率很高就证明了这一点。我们的智能鞋垫 Path Feel 是解决这一问题的颠覆性解决方案。它结合了高危患者的 DFU 检测和预防，并减少了需要 DFU 干预的病例的后期转诊。 Path Feel 通过嵌入鞋垫中的离散传感器实时捕获温度、压力和步态指标数据。此外，它的触觉反馈可以防止周围神经病患者跌倒。我们正在向英国创新局申请贷款，以使智能鞋垫产品更坚固、用途更广泛且制造成本更低。拟议的项目涉及后期研发，需要根据用户反馈改进产品的硬件、软件和数据分析方面，并使 NHS 更负担得起。作为该项目的一部分，我们将进行临床研究，开发结合人工智能分析的 Path Feel 的第二次迭代。我们的目标是提供一种无形且直观的以用户为中心的解决方案，提高人们的生活质量和独立性，同时降低医疗保健成本。我们的解决方案将解决周围神经病变患者跌倒风险增加的感觉丧失问题，预防 DFU，并作为与行动障碍相关的任何研究的鞋中实验室，具有广泛的其他应用。