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thereby offering the skills of a personal trainer at your fingertips in the comfort of your home .
The app currently focuses on perfecting squats but the patentpending technology that underpins it is set to transform the world of fitness and physiotherapy by allowing personal trainers , sports scientists and physiotherapists to define an infinite number of correct exercises .
Later this year , Kaia Health will integrate this technology into its various medical device apps including their ‘ Kaia Back Pain Relief at Home ’ app , a clinically-proven therapy app for nonspecific back pain and ‘ Kaia COPD Therapy ’ app which helps to relieve the symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease . The technology will help to treat patients , monitor trends in the progression of a disease or condition and personalise therapy – and this will create best-in-class digital multimodal therapy for patients .
Widely considered a vital exercise for increasing the strength and size of the legs as well as developing core strength , the squat is a compound , full body exercise that primarily trains the thigh muscles , hips and buttocks , quadriceps femoris muscle and hamstrings – as well as strengthening the bones , ligaments and insertion of the tendons throughout the lower body .
If you prefer training with others , the Perfect Squat Challenge online community will help to motivate you . The app encourages users to compete and challenge friends on social media by sharing a personalised link featuring the number of correct repetitions . This allows users to have their high score feature in a leaderboard during exercise for added motivation .
Maximilian Strobel , Head of Kaia Health ’ s AI Lab , said : “ Breakthroughs in AI-powered motion tracking and correction technology means that everyone now has access to a virtual personal trainer and physiotherapist on their iPhone – and can perfect exercises such as the squat . In the future , this technology will integrate within our medical device apps for diseases and conditions such as back pain , creating a scalable , cost-effective therapeutic tool . This democratises access to high-quality , bespoke fitness , rehabilitation and physiotherapy – and could reduce the burden on health services .” •
NEW CLINICALL APP OFFERS ITS WELL-KNOWN SERVICES ON ANY MOBILE DEVICE users to install yet another separate app on their device for each new function . This is where the ClinicAll App comes into play , because it integrates all these functions – by use of appropriate interfaces – into one single app .
Today , people prefer using their own communication device – a smartphone or tablet . Using services on mobile devices is becoming more and more popular .
The new ClinicAll App helps to make patients and hospitals independent of stationary bedside terminals . Now , clinic services can be accessed directly from any mobile device .
One of the main advantages of the ClinicAll App is integration . Several software providers have already developed clinicspecific functions – but it ’ s not feasible for
You are a patient in hospital , open the ClinicAll App on your device and log in – and you ’ re ready to use TV , Internet , or retrieve all hospital information : treatment data , your next lunch meal . You can also control room lighting and your bed . Doctors and staff can inform patients via push messages about upcoming activities , dates or rounds . Nurse call is also accessible . Any communication is as easy and simple as possible .
The ClinicAll App runs on iOS and Android devices . A central server provides full access control for all users . There is no longer any need for stationary computer terminals at every patient ’ s bedside – radically decreasing cost and effort for installation . •
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