Ending Back Pain with AI

A nationwide physical therapy business is renowned for eliminating chronic pain.  One unique aspect of this business is that it eliminates pain not by manipulation but by providing clients with expertly selected sequences of exercises that address problems in their functional anatomy.  In effect, the business helps people fix themselves and teaches them to maintain their musculoskeletal function for pain-free life.

The business has dozens of clinics with many more therapists.  Its expertise comes primarily from its founder and a number of long-time employees who have learned through experience.  We have been engaged to assist with several challenges on several occasions.

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Artificially Intelligent Physical Therapy

Over the last 25 years we have developed two generations of AI systems for physical therapy.  The first was before the emergence of the Internet, when Windows was 16 bits.  There were no digital cameras, either.  So, physical therapists would take Polaroid pictures; anterior and left and right lateral pictures or simply eyeball a patient and enter their posture into the computer using a diagram like the following:

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