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Clinical practice + rehabilitation technology · Mumbai

A rehabilitation practice with its own lab.

We treat patients and we develop rehabilitation technology. Each one shapes the other.

Scroll to look closer at one movement every physiotherapist knows: standing up from a chair.

Layer 1 of 5 · The eye

First, we watch.

In practice

We watch the patient stand up. Speed, symmetry, use of the arms, where the effort goes.

In development

Observation is skilled, but it leaves no record. Two therapists can watch the same movement and write different notes.

Layer 2 of 5 · Motion

How the body moves.

In practice

We assess posture and gait: how far the trunk leans, when the hips leave the seat, how the knees extend.

In development

Movement analysis tools that turn a recording into joint angles and a path for the centre of mass.

Layer 3 of 5 · Force

What the legs carry.

In practice

We test strength and balance: how much load goes through the legs, and how steady the patient is once standing.

In development

Force and pressure measurement, from handheld dynamometry to pressure-sensing surfaces.

Layer 4 of 5 · Signal

Which muscles fire, and when.

In practice

We retrain muscles that are weak or that fire at the wrong time.

In development

Surface EMG that shows which muscle is active and in what order.

Layer 5 of 5 · Decision

One movement, fully described.

In practice

We set goals, plan treatment and review outcomes with the patient.

In development

Decision support and outcome tracking that tell real change from measurement error.

Two halves of one organisation

The practice and the lab carry equal weight.

The practice

Physiotherapy department

Suvarna Hospital, Borivali, Mumbai

A working department that assesses and treats patients. Every clinical question on this page comes from here.

Questions→↓ ←↑Tools

The lab

Rehabilitation technology

Software and hardware for clinicians

Tools for measuring, understanding and tracking movement. Each one is built to answer a question the department actually has.

The tools are tried where patients are treated. Questions come from the clinic, and the answers go back to it. We use what we build.

Work so far

What the lab has built and is building.

Goals

What we are working towards.

Work with us

Clinicians and partners, write to us.

support@abilitylabs.in