SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) – Shriners Children’s Shreveport has unveiled some new, cutting-edge technology to help save young lives.
On Thursday, May 23, the hospital unveiled newly installed motion capture technology to hospital leaders, Chamber members, and representatives from the Robinson Foundation. The motion capture equipment features a new 14-camera system (featuring the latest Vicon Valkyre cameras) and advanced “markerless” capture tech. It was all made possible thanks to a donation of half a million dollars from the Robinson Foundation, which is a family philanthropic organization based out of New York. The money from the foundation also paid for space-themed vinyl graphics to be applied inside the walls of the motion capture lab.
The new cameras can capture 20 times more frames per second and offer vastly increase image quality over the hospital’s old system. This installation makes Shriners Children’s the first motion lab in the region to integrate a Theia markerless motion capture system to complement the new cameras. This markerless motion capture does not require the reflective “marker balls” of current systems. This allows the system to adapt to the wide needs of patients.
Motion analysis is used to reveal problems that the eye can’t see. Through the use of motion analysis, the results help surgeons identify, diagnose, and determine the type of medical procedure that may be needed for the patient.
“By using this room, we can help our surgeons decide which surgeries need to be done to correct these bony problems that the kids are having to allow them to get into what we refer to as ‘optimal bony alignment,’ which reduces their energy costs and lets them do the things that we do every day at a reduced energy consumption rate, allowing them to get back to doing the things that kids should be doing, which is playing, in school, and those kinds of things,” said Damian Duhon, manager of the rehabilitation department at Shriners.
Shriners Children’s Shreveport was the first Shriners hospital in the world. It treats children with illnesses such cerebral palsy, scoliosis, spina bifida, and more.
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