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FitMi Plus: Smart Functional Modules for Practicing Activities of Daily Living after Stroke

Award Number: R44HD097803
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Over 50% of the 700,000 individuals who survive a stroke each year have persistent movement impairments. Intensive rehabilitation could reduce their impairments, but access to such therapy is limited. Home therapy could supplement time with a therapist, but the current standard of care is simply providing individuals printed sheets of exercises, an approach that is not motivating and often not effective. Technological solutions do exist, but none provide an effective means for individuals to directly practice activities of daily living in a motivating way on their own at home. The goal of this Fast Track SBIR is to develop and test FitMi Plus, an improved version of Flint Rehab’s commercially successful FitMi system for motivating at-home therapeutic exercise. The original FitMi system consists of two wireless input devices called Pucks that each contain an array of sensors and connect to a software application that detects when simple exercises are completed. FitMi Plus will expand the capabilities of FitMi to detect the completion of activities of daily living by coupling common objects to the Pucks via distinct Functional Modules. This approach has the key advantage of allowing the most expensive and complex components of the system to be reused with each Functional Module, thus minimizing cost and maximizing system flexibility. We hypothesize that home therapy with FitMi Plus will be feasible for individuals with motor impairment due to stroke and more motivating and effective than the current standard of practice, printed sheets of exercises. The aims of this Fast Track project are to: 1) Establish the feasibility of FitMi Plus by pilot testing an initial set of 4 Functional Modules that can detect turning a doorknob, zipping a zipper, turning on a light switch, and pouring liquid into a glass; 2) Expand the library of Functional Modules based on feedback from PTs and OTs; and 3) Compare the efficacy of home- based functional training with FitMi Plus to non-functional exercise in a randomized controlled trial with individuals with chronic stroke. We hypothesize that individuals who exercise with FitMi Plus will have significantly greater increases in functional ability than individuals who do not perform functional exercises during their home therapy. If successful, this project will result in a commercially-ready, clinically validated home therapy tool that could become widely adopted in actual practice, thus improving long-term functional recovery after stroke.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2023	2021	FLINT REHABILITATION DEVICES, LLC	18023 SKY PARK CIR STE H2	IRVINE	CA	92614	ORANGE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	9/20/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $682,853 )
2021	2021	FLINT REHABILITATION DEVICES, LLC	18023 SKY PARK CIR STE H2	IRVINE	CA	92614	ORANGE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	3	11/5/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$682,853
2021	2019	FLINT REHABILITATION DEVICES, LLC	18023 SKY PARK CIR STE H2	IRVINE	CA	92614	ORANGE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	11/4/2020	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $682,853

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $763,931 )
2020	2020	FLINT REHABILITATION DEVICES, LLC	18023 SKY PARK CIR STE H2	IRVINE	CA	92614	ORANGE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	2	11/13/2019	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$763,931
2020	2019	FLINT REHABILITATION DEVICES, LLC	18023 SKY PARK CIR STE H2	IRVINE	CA	92614	ORANGE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	11/13/2019	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $763,931

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $225,001 )
2019	2019	FLINT REHABILITATION DEVICES, LLC	18023 SKY PARK CIR STE H2	IRVINE	CA	92614	ORANGE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	2/22/2019	NEW	$225,001
														Subtotal = $225,001

Grand Total All Awards = $1,671,785

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FitMi Plus: Smart Functional Modules for Practicing Activities of Daily Living after Stroke

Award Number: R44HD097803

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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