This project is a collaboration with researchers in the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine (https://healthsciences.unimelb.edu.au/departments/physiotherapy/chesm) in the Department of Physiotherapy at The University of Melbourne. The focus of the KneeCare project is to develop a mobile application that can help individuals with their weight loss, where the individuals suffer from osteoarthritis.

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is a critical support for people with Motorneurone Disease (MND). An issue that occurs frequently with such ventilators is a concept called Patient Ventilator Asynchrony (PVA) – this is when the ventilator falls out of sync with a patient’s breathing pattern, effectively causing a mismatch between the breathing efforts of a patient and breath delivery by the ventilator. As most NIV happens during sleep, these mismatches frequently wake the patient up, which has an outsize impact on their quality of life, and therefore life expectancy. Optimising ventilator settings to prevent this requires time-intensive manual analysis by highly skilled clinical specialists. This is the focus of the PVA project.