Surgeon invents App using accelerometer in cell phone to check patients gait

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DOC INVENTS POST-SURGERY APP (Orthopedics This Week)
Michael Dunbar, M.D., a surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital and a professor in biomedical engineering at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, was finding it hard to keep up with the long line of patients needing hip and knee replacements and post surgery check-ups. So he invented a smartphone app.
Dunbar’s app uses the accelerometer in smartphones to analyze the gait of a patient. “It can measure the centre of mass displacement very accurately” said Dunbar, “The accelerometers are pretty simple and pretty powerful.”
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