Team: Anshu Agarwal, Nicholas Hsu, Yasmine Ibrahim, Edwin Tang

Client: Arash Afshinnik, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine, Fresno

Problem: For patients in critical care for brain injury treatment, physical therapy and diagnostic monitoring of limb motion and strength are important metrics of recovery. Presently, the intensive care until has no objective measurement of patient arm movement and strength. Each day on rounds, the attending physician will simply ask a patient to raise their arm, noting a subjective assessment of performance.

Need: Our unmet need centers on devising a means to provide a daily measure of how well a patient is lifting their arm, how fast the limb is lifted, and how much resistance the arm can overcome.