Inventors:
Bruce R. Wills - Melbourne FL
International Classification:
A61B 5103
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.