Researchers from Hong Kong have come up with a new robotic device for improving the gait and lower limb function of stroke patients.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The mobile ankle-foot exoneuromusculoskeleton developed by a research team from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a rehabilitation robot specifically designed for stroke patients with hemiplegia, or paralysis that affects one side of the...
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Nursing, together with a local telecommunications company, has developed a new mobile health management app for the elderly.
HOW IT WORKS
Based on a press release, they said the app, which connects to a wearable health monitoring device, alerts a nurse or carer once it detects abnormalities in an elderly user's vitals parameters, such as blood...
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has recently developed a virtual learning system that uses virtual reality technology to enhance nursing education amid the ongoing global pandemic.
PolyU's Virtual Hospital learning system is said to offer an "innovative experiential approach to nursing education".
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Touted to be the first-of-its-kind in Hong Kong, the VR-based learning system...
A research team at Hong Kong Polytechnic University has developed optical fibre sensors used in railway safety monitoring technologies for health monitoring.
WHAT IT DOES
In a statement, PolyU described the novel Side Hole Polymer Optical Fibre Sensors as "biocompatible, supple and extremely sensitive to very small pressure changes inside the human body".
Professor Hwa-yaw Tam, lead researcher...
