BODY MOVEMENT MONITOR ALLOWS NURSES TO KNOW BETTER
February 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PROBLEM with diagnoses based on physical examination is that nurses, physiotherapists and doctors must often rely on what patients tell them about their problems. And of course, that information is not always accurate. Patients can be vague; exaggerate or underestimate their physical difficulties and shortcomings; can miss out important details; even gloss over accidents. How much better it would be if technology could monitor a patient's movements for a week, and download the data to a computer for examination by trained medical ...
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