By Ganesh Bhattat New Delhi, Nov 28, : , There have been reports that some actors and other prominent personalities have died suddenly.These deaths occurred despite the fact that they were young and healthy.
Exercising too much is a major reason, experts say.
IIT researchers have created an innovative device to raise awareness about the danger of heart attack from excessive exercise.
Researchers at IIT Gandhinagar have created a Virtual Reality-based treadmill exercise platform that is cardiac-sensitive and AI-enabled.This reduces the risk of over-exercising.
This innovation provides an immersive, adaptive, progressive, and immersive exercise experience that can improve cardiac endurance, dynamic balance, walking patterns, and prevent over-exercising.
It can be extremely useful for both healthy gym/treadmill users and patients with gait disorders.
Modern life is fast-paced and has many benefits.While regular exercise is a great way to live a healthy and active life in this fast-paced world, many people don’t realize how much they can exercise.
This can lead to fatal accidents in healthy gym users or people with gait disorders, who have excessive energy expenditure while walking.
Because of the diversity of one’s exercise capacity, it is important to set a specific exercise intensity to ensure optimal results and minimize the risk of any fatal accidents.
The trainers or clinicians make the decisions about the intensity of the exercises.They closely monitor the individual’s physical and cardiac capabilities and oversee the exercise protocols.
With limited healthcare resources, it might be difficult to keep an eye on gait exercises sessions and have a clinician or trainer present.
A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, led by Prof Uttama Lehiri, Professor of Electrical Engineering has created a virtual reality (VR-based) treadmill exercise platform called ‘PTreadX’.
This allows users to do personalised, adaptive, and progressive treadmill exercises without feeling overwhelmed or causing undue stress.
This invention was part the PhD research of Dr Dhaval Solanki (a doctoral alumnus from IITGN), who was joined by Prof Manasi Knetkar, Assistant Teaching Professor Design and Innovation Centre; Nirav Patel, Industrial Designer; and Anand Chauhan Junior Research Fellow, IITGN.
VR-based, immersive task modules in PTreadX are integrated with treadmill-based exercises to monitor cardiac load and set exercise parameters to increase cardiac endurance.This is done without causing undue stress to the user.
It functions as a physiologically-sensitive system, whose behaviour and functioning is affected by the comfort level and physiological parameters of the user.
The whole system detects the user’s physiological behaviour and decides the level of challenge for the user.
The challenge level can take many forms, including changing the speed of the treadmill or elevating the user.
This system’s VR-based task module displays various scenes/environments.
It shows a human avatar running or walking along a path at the same speed as the treadmill user.It also displays other information, such as treadmill speed, energy consumed, heart rate, and audio-visual feedback based upon the user’s performance on a treadmill.
The invention technology has been proven to be effective in assessing and quantifying treadmill exercise.It has also shown that individuals who use PTreadX platform for exercise have a greater ability to monitor their gait and walk speed, as well as their cardiac endurance.
This platform allows a person to follow a moderated exercise program according to their body limits, thereby reducing the chance of injury or death from over-exercising.
Prof Uttama said that PTreadX could prove to be very beneficial for users of health-conscious gyms/treadmills as well as individuals with gait disorders.
We want to make a positive difference in the lives of both health-conscious exercise enthusiasts and patients who require gait rehabilitation.
This innovation was also filed for patent in India by the research team.
The research results have also been published in two peer-reviewed journals.
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