CHRONOS
Innovative device for the evaluation of the “motor functional age”: How old
is your muscle?
Partners:
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University
Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6 UPMC (Coordinator) – France
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Assistance
Publique Hôpitaux de Paris APHP – France
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E-Seniors
Association – France
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Abbott Laboratories
S.A. – Spain
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Universidad
de Navarra – Spain
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University of
Technology of Compiègne UTC – France
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TMS International B.V.
– The Netherlands
Duration:
01/01/2018 – 31/12/2018
Objectives:
The project CHRONOS aims to develop an efficient medical device for measuring
the « Motor Functional Age » (MFA), a new concept related to motor functional abilities,
by evaluating muscle contraction and kinematic abilities. This device will
support intervention strategies for prevention, active aging and lessen the
burden on healthcare systems by overcoming muscular functional losses.
Precisely, the CHRONOS project aims to provide a device to detect earlier
the motor decline, by developing a precise quantitative device measuring “Motor
Functional Age” (MFA) of young, middle-aged and old people, thus preventing
future functional motor loss for healthy aging. The MFA might be different
from the Chronological Age (CA), depending on lifestyle, physical activity,
and medical condition. Thus, this device will provoke the awareness of this
functional loss and will permit monitoring, adaptation and new design of a
variety of personalized therapies for healthy aging including physical exercise,
medication and nutritional interventions to reduce the MFA toward or less
than the CA. The device combines data processing software that estimates the
MFA by assessing muscle aging using a non-invasive and innovative multichannel
electromyographical technique coupled to accelerometry sensors for motion
evaluation. These data will provide with a built-in clinical database of subjects
from different age categories (25-85 years old). Both end-user and way-to-market
evaluation of this device will be realized along with the knowledge dissemination.