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Do you struggle with #backpain, or have you struggled in the past? We have exciting news! Akina invites you to be among the first to experience the future of #connected #physiotherapy - for free. Through our AI-enhanced software, you can perform guided exercises from the comfort of your home, whenever it suits you. Plus, a skilled physiotherapist from Akina's network will provide personal guidance, monitor your progress, and tailor your therapy program. Our model also allows for an integrated approach, combining virtual and in-person sessions*. Here's how to start: 1️⃣ Click the link below, fill out a brief questionnaire, and schedule a 10-minute consultation with one of our physiotherapists. 2️⃣ Receive personalized advice during a video call to discover if Akina’s connected therapy suits your needs. 3️⃣ Begin your complimentary therapy and take a step towards better back health. 👉 Ready to begin? Click on this link: https://t.ly/T-mb4 *Disclaimer: The cost of in-person therapy is not included in the trial offer. This offer is time-limited and participation cannot be guaranteed.

📈Physical therapist-guided virtual MSK care is rapidly thriving. But so far, only in the US... Huge opportunity to bring the same benefits to European patients, providers and payors. Clinical/commercial validation is advancing on all fronts: The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) just published a scoping health technology assessment documenting clinical and economic benefits of virtual MSK solutions. Sword Health recently announced a USD 130m round at a USD 3b valuation and is close to breaking even. Hinge Health is probably in similarly good shape after a total raise of USD 1b and a reported USD 6b valuation. All this while American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) released a new guideline recognizing virtual care options as a core part of the physical therapy of the future. Links PHTI HTA - https://lnkd.in/e7uuZDZw Sword Health - https://lnkd.in/e6QZm-iA APTA Guideline - https://lnkd.in/ej9mjmGd Springboard Health Angels Ariel Dora Stern

Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known. Its benefits in prevention outstrip any known drugs: 50% reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, 50% reduction in the risk of many cancers, positive effects on mental health, pulmonary health, GI health, bone health, muscle function. You name it. Exercise helps. In fact, the ability to exercise over long distances was likely key to our evolution as a species because the availability of densely caloric foods due to persistence hunting allowed our energy-avid brains to enlarge. And yet, we have had very little insight into the molecular basis of these magical effects...until now! Published in yesterday's Nature and featured on the cover was work from our consortium that represents the culmination of a couple of decades of pitching ideas to the NIH, forming a consortium, planning experiments, executing those experiments, and analyzing data at unprecedented scale, all aimed at enhancing our understanding of the molecular transducers of exercise. It was a major effort from so many in our consortium (playfully named MoTrPAC) and is the first landmark paper of many more to come. This first paper focused on the multi-tissue, multi-omics of treadmill exercise in rats. Specifically, we report the effects of eight weeks of treadmill running on the transcriptome, the epigenome, the proteome, the metabolome, the lipidome and the immunome of a broad range of tissues (in fact, 9,466 assays across 19 tissues, 25 molecular platforms, and 4 training time points). The result is the most comprehensive molecular map of exercise ever created. At Stanford, my colleague Matthew Wheeler and I co-lead the bioinformatics center and it was our team's duty and privilege to ingest the data, QC the data, help analyze the data, and make the data available to the world. Various tools available at our data hub allow you to explore, visualize, and download the data for your own use. Have fun! And stay tuned for human data that will be coming. So many people to thank who made this possible (see the paper for details). Special shout out to the primary analysts and authors: David (Didi) Amar, Nicole Gay, PhD & Pierre Michel Jean Beltran. The paper is available here: https://lnkd.in/getxww9f The data are available at our hub: https://motrpac-data.org/

Three of our affiliated start-ups are among the first batch of Start-up innovation projects approved by Innosuisse in 2023! Akina in Life Sciences, affiliated through Associate Faculty member Prof. Robert Riener, and Aegis Rider AG in ICT, affiliated through Associate Faculty member Prof. Luc Van Gool, along with irmos technologies AG in Engineering, affiliated through Core Faculty member Prof. Eleni Chatzi, have all been recognized for their innovative science-based projects. Congratulations to all three start-ups for this milestone! Are you interested in joining the ETH AI Center as an affiliated startup? Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dScRHwyz #entrepreneurship #innosuisse #innovation #affiliatedstartup

Over half the hospitals in the country operated at a financial loss last year. From labor shortages to health worker burnout, AI can help solve some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare. But, at the end of the day, even the best models will fail without broad distribution and profitable monetization. So Julie Yoo, a16z general partner, and Jay Rughani, a16z investment partner, interviewed nine enterprise healthcare leaders from UPMC, Blue Shield of California, Bassett Healthcare Network, and more, to understand how they evaluate healthcare AI solutions. If you're building AI for healthcare, it's a "can't miss" episode. Listen on Raising Health: https://lnkd.in/g43nPv3t

🔔 American Physical Therapy Association: Physical therapists should recommend telerehabilitation or hybrid care. Tele- or hybrid care "are at least equivalent to in-person physical therapy with respect to patient acceptability and satisfaction and are superior to in-person physical therapy with respect to adherence and attendance for certain health conditions." This new recommendation is made as part of a new clinical practice guideline and based on systematic reviews of current scientific literature, clinical information, and accepted approaches to telerehabilitation in physical therapist practice. Full manuscript here: https://lnkd.in/e-MfA8ms

#homecoming - but this time, for the ETH AI Center community🤓 Great event to strengthen ties with our fellow AI startups and partners from Google and Wenger Vieli. And of course, kudos to our Founder and CTO, Michele Xiloyannis, for the nice pitch✌ Thanks again to hosts Alex Ilic, Daniel Naeff and the entire ETH AI Center team! #future of #AIinmedicine #physiotherapy

Celebrating 250 therapy sessions with Akina! 🤩  And if you’re curious: this is what therapy with Akina feels like. Sign up for our early access newsletter or comment below if you would like to experience AI-powered physiotherapy with a human connection yourself

Mit grosser Freude durften wir eine besondere Einladung entgegennehmen: Die neue #Gesundheitsministerin Elisabeth Baume-Schneider will mit uns über den geplanten #Tarifeingriff sprechen. Das Interesse an der Situation der #Physiotherapie hierzulande rechnen wir ihr hoch an! 👍 Im Namen von unseren 11’000 #Mitgliedern bedanken wir uns für diese Gelegenheit und hoffen auf ein positives Ergebnis. 📸 © Bundeskanzlei / Béatrice Devènes

The debate on Swiss physiotherapy tariffs is currently at a standstill. But there could be a silver lining with new possibilities for the future of healthcare.  With AI-powered motion support and instant feedback, Akina Cloud enhances home exercises, making them fun and effective. We keep patients engaged and physiotherapists connected, paving the way for better care 🩹 Together, let’s revolutionise patient care and make the physiotherapy profession more attractive for the future!  🔗 https://lnkd.in/eMxP-G6n