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Wearable, Electronic Throat Sensor is 'Game Changer' for Stroke Recovery Treatment

Developed at Northwestern University  , a new wearable designed to be worn on the throat can measure patients' swallowing ability and speech patterns. The bandage-like sensor aids in the diagnosis and treatment of aphasia, a communication disorder associated with stroke. The sensors wirelessly stream data to clinicians' phones and computers, allowing them to react to patients' changing metrics in real time.

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    00:00:00 [Music] we're starting to track our patients here at the Shirley Ryan ability lab during the therapies and throughout the day using sensors if you look at what's in the hospital today you'll most of these sensors require wire connections to external boxes of electronics so it's great if you're in the hospital bed maybe it's okay now but if you want to

    00:00:29 go home it's just not going to be compatible with natural daily activities it's the sensor at South fight I couldn't even tell what something it was like a man it really allows you to track the patient continuously but in a way that's not disruptive we're measuring their speech their swallowing capability the moment of their upper and lower limbs their sleep quality how do they

    00:00:51 recover during therapy or how do they handle different types of therapy clinical outcome measures are there walking balance movement sweat so a lot of the participants really recover well during the inpatient setting or when they're in the hospital the biggest problem is a lot of these gains tend to drop off if they go home one of the benefits of this is that we're going to

    00:01:15 be able to follow them and track their performance after they leave here to see how they're functioning in the real world they have great team of scientists here at ability lab it's infused with physician scientists who are willing to embrace and work with us on new technologies and so it becomes a very powerful collaboration bringing advanced

    00:01:39 engineering together with rehabilitation science and clinical medicine to focus on the patient this technology and these sensors I think could be very useful for patients recovery I get data an immediate feedback on my walking so I think that's a very good thing I think these sensors are a game change in the field of rehabilitation because they allow us to monitor patients on

    00:02:03 different aspects of their recovery both in the hospital and in the real world