Is walking really medicine? – 3rd Wintersymposium of ”The Human Motion Project”

Walking as outcome and treatment – using mobile accelerometry will be the base threads through 3rd Wintersymposium on Friday, March 11th, 2016 in Munich, Germany.

The vision of the Human Motion Project is to become a successful analogue of the Human Genome Project: improving human health by an open collaborative technology platform for the mobile medical monitoring of human motion. The basis is a growing ”critical path toolbox” and a biomedical data warehouse for collecting, archiving, analyzing, and disseminating human motion data including a library of algorithms. In their 3rd Winter symposium the human motion project will pick out walking as “pars pro toto”.

“Walking is man’s best medicine” was known in ancient Greece (Hippokrates) – but is it really true? How would one measure and determine the right – effective and safe – dose for an individual and how would one measure the outcome? Mobile sensors, in particular mobile accelerometers that can measure various aspects of physical activity in the clinic and the “real world”, will probably play an important role in this field.

As a fundamental element of “human motion” the project will focus during this day on various aspects and consequences of walking/not walking for human health – with or without drug treatment. They’ll go from the clinical aspects to computational aspects (devices/sensors, data, algorithms, analysis, transmission) to the very important regulatory aspects of clinical trials and medical devices (safety, efficacy, feasibility). Experts from University hospitals, research centers, rehabilitations centers, manufacturers of medical devices, pharmaceutical companies, patients and regulatory bodies will cover the broad spectrum of topics with a clear focus: to help the field to jointly establish a new set of meaningful clinical endpoints linked to objective measures of human motion.

You can find the preliminary programme here. Registration is open till Monday, February 29th, 2016. Information and talks about the previous Symposium are available online.

Venue
Klinikum rechts der Isar
Technische Universität München
Ismaninger Str. 22
81675 Munich
Auditorium B