Movement and stress analysis for better health
Founded in 2019, the start-up Predimo GmbH from Münster has developed "ComputerMyoGrafie (CMG)". A procedure that not only analyses movements, but also recognises the associated individual loads on muscles and joints during the execution of the movements.
Find out more about the innovation from Münsterland on this page.
Predimo Ltd.
Predimo GmbH from Münster emerged in 2019 from years of cooperation in the field of research and development between the "Movement Science" department at WWU Münster and external scientists. The multidisciplinary team carries out fast, precise and maximally user-friendly movement and load analyses using the latest technologies.
Challenge
Ergonomics in the workplace is an important topic from a medical and economic point of view. Employees in logistics are on sick leave for an average of 22 days a year. More than 30 per cent of these days of absence are due to musculoskeletal disorders, and despite increased efforts in workplace health management, the trend is still rising. The current blanket solutions do not provide an effective remedy. There is no individualised, employee-specific view of the forces and stresses acting in the body during work.
Solution approach: ComputerMyoGraphy
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The ComputerMyoGraphy (CMG) method developed by Predimo GmbH enables a "functional view of the body" and, based on this, an individualised load and movement optimisation can take place. In ComputerMyoGraphy, for example in the field of ergonomics, special sensors attached to the outside of work clothing - which do not interfere with the work process in any way - are used to record the respective movements live while performing the work, for example when lifting or carrying. The movement analysis is then sent to "Myonardo", a human musculoskeletal computer model in 3D. This digital figure made up of bones, joints and almost 700 individual muscles shows on the screen how the person is moving and what loads and forces are acting on the joints and muscles. Predimo therefore not only takes a look at the movement processes of a person from the outside, but also looks deep inside the body. This is made possible by the underlying software and the computer model developed by Predimo.
Success
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The software predicts which movements will individually lead to certain overloads. This is worth its weight in gold - especially in the fields of ergonomics, sports or medicine. At the workplace, during training in professional sports or in prevention - the wide range of applications will lead to fewer musculoskeletal disorders in the future. Physical overload can be reduced in a targeted manner, performance optimised, downtime reduced, the risk of injury lowered and reintegration accelerated. Employees in logistics in particular can also benefit greatly from this.
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As a regional joint initiative, Enabling Networks Münsterland supports companies and universities in the Münsterland region in developing innovations, implementing them and finding the right partners for the project. In order to show how innovative and at the same time cooperative Münsterland already is, the project also went in search of innovative cooperation projects from the region. The results are presented on this page. The Enabling Networks Münsterland project is funded by the European Union and the NRW Ministry of Economics as part of the ERDF call "Regio.NRW".
