Brute Force aims to give medical professionals data which would otherwise be hidden variables in the rehabilitation process of amputees. Brute Force achieves these goals by collecting, visualizing, and analyzing the data acquired from patients’ devices. Doing so gives medical professionals accurate data regarding the usage of a patient's devices and can better equip those professionals to give more personalized treatments to each patient. We hope that our process will be able to aid amputees in recovering faster and getting them back on track to living a full and healthy life as an amputee.
The purpose of Brute Force is to give medical professionals access to previously hidden variables to better service amputees through their recovery process.
A microcontroller will collect pressure sensor data approximately 250 times a second. That data will need to be converted from its hexadecimal form into a decimal representation. Once in decimal form, our team will graphically display this data so that it can be useful to both the patient and the doctor. One way this data will be displayed will be through force calculations based on upon intervals of time in which the patient is using the crutch. These pre-set thresholds will be indicated interims in time in which the force was greater which would indicate detrimental or harmful use that should be corrected to ensure the patients’ health. This data will be uploaded into a database based upon the patient’s information so that the doctor can take steps to help his patients.
The focus of this project is to implement a graph that will clearly display the data to patients
and
our end
user. It will indicate how the patient is currently using the crutch to give a physical
therapist
access to
hidden variables. This will then allow the physical therapist to specialize the treatment to the
individual
patient by showing them how much force they may appropriately apply.
The purpose of Brute Force is to give medical professionals access to previously hidden
variables to
better
service amputees through their recovery process.
Technologies:
Adobe xD, Flying Donut, GitLab, Git, UI/UX design
Tools:
Python, PyCharm, matplotlib, numpy, tkinter, pytest, html, css, javascript
