Before this post I have never watched a TED talk and I never knew how informative they actually are. I watched one by Cosmic Mihaiu in March 2015, who is a physical therapy entrepreneur who used computer software to change physical therapy, called "Physical Therapy is Boring- Play a Game Instead". Himself and three other colleagues created a computer software called Mira that makes physical therapy for children, adults, seniors, and other types of patients fun. Patients go to physical therapy but the problem remains with continuing the exercises at home which makes the patient heal in a longer amount of time . This software makes the exercises less boring and more fun with interactive games designed specifically for that patient. The exercises can be done along side your physical therapist for motivation and interaction. Plus, at the end of the session your progress is tracked for you to see if you improved, your strengths and weaknesses, and your speed. Your physical therapist can see the whole report of your session and base the next treatment off of your progress. It was really interesting that just this software can detect all your movement and progress with out even talking to a person. This will definitely will decrease healing time frames and further injury prevention. Right not it is only used in ten countries in Europe and the U.S. so hopefully this software begins to take off. When I did my physical therapy that was a major problem for me, actually doing my exercises at home. This software can increase patient productivity and make physical therapy better as a whole. I would recommend this TED talk because it is very enlightening on how technology is changing physical therapy. By the time I am a physical therapist more and more software agents will come out to aid the rehabilitation process and maybe make in more efficient in motivation people to actually do their prescribed exercises.
Cosmin Mihaiu TED talk
