Using seismography and AI to help improve access to key health data in patients with coronary artery disease
We are currently working with VentriJect – a Danish medical device manufacturer. The main objective of this project is to test the validity of a device designed to estimate cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) while a person is at rest. VentriJect have previously demonstrated the device’s validity in a healthy population. The current project will focus on people with coronary artery disease.
Sheffield Hallam’s global MBA students to enhance accelerator impact on early stage ventures
Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Accelerator programme will provide its next cohort of early-stage businesses with dedicated support to grow their business through input from its current crop of talented global MBA students.
Helping small businesses achieve big ambitions
Find out how our Wellbeing Accelerator helps start-ups and SMEs to develop innovative health and wellbeing products
Etexsense: cuff development and testing
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a medical device that treats foot drop (inability to lift the toes during walking) in multiple sclerosis or following stroke. It works by applying pulses of current to paralysed muscles.
Bridging the wellbeing gap: co-designing a student support chatbot with Mindbehind
The study revealed a resounding consensus among students regarding the need for a wellbeing-focused chatbot. Students identified key areas where such support was required, particularly in addressing anxiety related to academic and university life.
Magic Five
This collaboration with Innerva explored the five major benefits of power-assisted exercise for older people and people with neurological and cardio-respiratory conditions. The 'magic five' consists of aerobic fitness, muscular strength, flexibility, balance and psychosocial wellbeing.
Planet Wellbeing: Using Extended Reality to Improve Mental Health and Reduce Loneliness
One in 15 people aged 50+ are often lonely, rising to one in three for those who are widowed, and one in four for those in poor health. Loneliness and social isolation have numerous health consequences including 26% increased mortality likelihood and more than doubling the risk of developing dementia.
Golf as a therapeutic tool for older adults and their supporters
Sheffield Hallam University has teamed up with Golf in Society (GiS) and Sport for Confidence to explore how the social connectivity of golf can improve the health and wellbeing of those who are frail and living with Parkinson’s and dementia.