El proyecto IMA supone un gran avance para la fisioterapia a nivel mundial, dado que proporciona objetividad y rigor a la fisioterapia asistencial. Mediante este sistema tendremos una ayuda al diagnóstico fisioterápico y tratamiento de los principales problemas de hombro, rodilla y cadera de nuestros pacientes.

·        Asociación Española de Fisioterapeutas (España).

·        Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Fysiotherapie (Asociación de Fisioterapeutas Holandesa)

·        Felag Sjukrathjalfara  (Asociación de Fisioterapeutas Islandesa).

·        Sjukrathjalfun Islands (Centro de Fisioterapia, Islandia).

·        Kine (Empresa de desarrollo de tecnología para el análisis de movimientos, Islandia).

·        Intelligent Systems Research Institute (Centro de I+D+I, Reino Unido).

·        Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia (Centro de I+D+I, España).

·        Fisioterapia Marítim (Clínica de Fisioterapia, España).

Para ello se presentaron y analizaron las diferentes alternativas que proponían una visualización gráfica sencilla de las mediciones realizadas mediante la tecnología IMA.

Asimismo se revisó la planificación del proyecto y se verificó que los objetivos y el progreso del mismo estaba muy en línea con las necesidades de los fisioterapeutas.

Equipo del IMA en las instalaciones del Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia

En definitiva, el proyecto IMA está teniendo un desarrollo satisfactorio en cuanto a sus objetivos. Estamos impacientes por recibir en pocos meses los primeros prototipos del sistema! Os seguiremos informando de los avances del proyecto…

» Intelligent Motion Analysis – Development of a novel technology that makes quantitative measurement of musculoskeletal problems available, in the interests of physiotherapists, patients and society «.

IMA is a European project of three years that aim at developing a tool for physiotherapists to provide quantitative information on musculoskeletal disorders in an accurate and reliable way. It is intended that this system is easy to use and economical so that any therapist can buy it and use it in their daily practice. This is a unique tool measuring the patient performance in several defined exercises. The IMA project represents a breakthrough for the global physiotherapy as it provides objectivity and rigor to physiotherapy care. This system will be helpful in physiotherapy diagnosis and treatment of major shoulder, knee and hip problems of our patients.

Lirios Dueñas ( col. 1024 ) and Silvia Mena ( col. 3189 ) , physiotherapists in Clínica de Fisioterapia Marítim and professors of the Faculty of Physiotherapy, University of Valencia , attended the project meeting held at the Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia the October 1, 2013. It was attended by 16 representatives of all institutions and countries working in the IMA :

·        Innovation Center Iceland (R&D Centre , Iceland)

·        Asociación Española de Fisioterapeutas (Spanish Physiotherapists Association) .

·        Koninklijk Nederlands voor Genootschap Fysiotherapie (Dutch Association of Physiotherapists )

·        Felag Sjukrathjalfara (Icelandic Physiotherapists Association) .

·        Sjukrathjalfun Islands (Physiotherapy Centre, Iceland) .

·        Kine (Company developing technology for the analysis of movement, Iceland).

·        Intelligent Systems Research Institute (R&D Centre, United Kingdom).

·        Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia (R&D Centre, Spain).

·        Fisioterapia Marítim (Physiotherapy Clinic, Spain).

During this meeting system configuration and hardware components were defined. One of the main premises was that the interface of the end product would be attractive, easy to use and of great applicability for physiotherapists.

At this respect, the different alternatives presented and analyzed proposed a simple graphical display of measurements made by IMA technology.

Additionally, the planning of the project was reviewed and project objectives and progress are very much in line with physiotherapists’ requests.

The next technical meeting will be in Leicester (United Kingdom) in January 2014 and the full management meeting will be held in Brussels (Belgium) or Reykjavik (Iceland) in the beginning of April.

The next phases of the project will focus on the validation of equipment, the choice of measurement protocols and data collection of normal and pathological subjects by measuring with the IMA system: in these phases physiotherapy clinics Islands Sjukrathjalfun and Marítim and the Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia have a key role.

Ultimately, the project IMA is having a satisfactory development in their objectives. We look forward to receiving in a few months the first prototypes of the system! We will keep reporting on project progress…

This project receives funding from the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union managed by the Research Executive Agency REA http://ec.europa.eu/research/rea (FP7 / 2007-2013) under grant agreement n ° 315551 FP7-SME-2012.