ICT&health November 6, 2025
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a simple yet powerful new way to monitor patients with neuromuscular diseases using just a smartphone. Their study shows that everyday mobile devices can match, and even surpass, traditional clinical tools such as stopwatches and expensive motion-analysis systems, offering a faster and more accessible way to measure patient progress.
For decades, clinicians have relied on stopwatches to assess how long patients take to perform basic tasks, such as standing up or walking a short distance. While easy and inexpensive, this method fails to capture subtle changes in mobility, a major limitation when tracking slowly progressing diseases like facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) or myotonic dystrophy (DM).
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To address this, Professor Scott Delp, Ph.D.,...
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