Objective measurement tool for evaluating medical therapy outcome in accordance with quantified physical therapy data
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1. A method of evaluating progress of a patient therapy program, through which dysfunction of a body region of said patient may be reduced, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a plurality of of respectively different parameters representative of respectively different physical attributes of said body region for which dysfunction-reducing therapy is to be carried out;
(b) for each respectively different parameter of said plurality, generating a respective numerical data value that represents a condition of a respectively different physical attribute of said body region associated with said each respectively different parameter, and combining numerical data values of said respectively different parameters, so as to quantify said dysfunction of said body region;
(c) conducting a patient therapy program for reducing said dysfunction of said body region;
(d) during said patient therapy program conducted in step (c), re-evaluating a physical condition of said body region, and for each respectively different parameter of said plurality, generating an updated numerical data value that represents a current condition of said respectively different attribute of said body region associated with said each respectively different parameter, and combining updated numerical data values, so as to quantify a current dysfunction of said body region; and
(e) deriving a measure of progress of said patient therapy program in reducing dysfunction of said body region in accordance with differences in dysfunction of said body region as quantified in steps (d) and (b).
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Abstract
A medical condition quantification and dysfunction-reduction therapy evaluation process enables a health care service provider to monitor the improvement of a patient'"'"'s condition, as well as the efficiency of the rehabilitation process employed to achieve a patient improvement objective. Based upon initial patient examination data, one or more sets of parameters associated with respective body regions, for which dysfunction-reducing therapy is to be carried out, are provided. For each parameter, a data value is generated. The magnitude of the data value is based upon the condition of the body region associated with the parameter. All of the data values of the parameters of a body region are combined, to quantify the overall condition or dysfunction of the body region. Periodically, during the course of the patient therapy program, the physical condition of the body region being treated is re-examined. Based upon each re-examination, the numerical data value of each parameter is updated to reflect the current condition of body region, and the updated values are combined to thereby quantify the current dysfunction of the body region being treated. By graphically recording both the original quantification of the dysfunction and the iteratively updated quantification results of the therapy session, the progress of the patient therapy program in reducing dysfunction of the body region can be readily tracked, so as to enable the health care service provider to monitor whether the therapy is reducing the dysfunction, and how efficiently it is doing so.
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1. A method of evaluating progress of a patient therapy program, through which dysfunction of a body region of said patient may be reduced, comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a plurality of of respectively different parameters representative of respectively different physical attributes of said body region for which dysfunction-reducing therapy is to be carried out; (b) for each respectively different parameter of said plurality, generating a respective numerical data value that represents a condition of a respectively different physical attribute of said body region associated with said each respectively different parameter, and combining numerical data values of said respectively different parameters, so as to quantify said dysfunction of said body region; (c) conducting a patient therapy program for reducing said dysfunction of said body region; (d) during said patient therapy program conducted in step (c), re-evaluating a physical condition of said body region, and for each respectively different parameter of said plurality, generating an updated numerical data value that represents a current condition of said respectively different attribute of said body region associated with said each respectively different parameter, and combining updated numerical data values, so as to quantify a current dysfunction of said body region; and (e) deriving a measure of progress of said patient therapy program in reducing dysfunction of said body region in accordance with differences in dysfunction of said body region as quantified in steps (d) and (b). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of evaluating progress of a patient therapy program, through which dysfunction of one or more body regions of said patient may be reduced, comprising the steps of:
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(a) evaluating a physical condition of a patient to identify one or more body regions for which dysfunction-corrective therapy may be required and, for each identified body region, establishing a plurality of respectively different parameters representative of respectively different physical attributes of said each identified body region; (b) for each respectively different parameter of a respective plurality established in step (a), generating a numerical data value that represents a physical condition of a respective body region, and combining the numerical values of said respective plurality, so as to quantify said physical condition of said respective body region; (c) for each respective body region identified in step (a), conducting a patient therapy program for reducing dysfunction thereof; (d) during the patient therapy program conducted in step (c), re-evaluating the physical condition of each respective identified body region for which dysfunction-corrective therapy has been carried out, and for each respectively different parameter of a respective plurality, generating an updated numerical data value that represents a current physical condition of said each respective identified body region, and combining updated numerical values of said respective plurality, so as to quantify the current condition of said each respective identified body region; and (e) deriving a measure of the progress of said patient therapy program in accordance with changes in quantified condition of said each respective identified body region. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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