Development of an innovative, multi-disciplinary and integrated approach for workers suffering from degenerative pathologies of the lumbar spine based on advanced technologies, capacity buildinging and feasibility analysis for the creation of a reference center for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and reintegration into work.
Project objectives
Low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide and affects all occupational sectors. Therefore, prevention measures, risk management, treatment, care and rehabilitation are focal points for effectively and innovatively reducing this burden on the health, productive and welfare system. Integrating clinical paths with working ones, maximizing the use of new advanced technologies with a multidisciplinary approach and laying the foundations for the development of a reference center is of fundamental importance for creating targeted prevention and treatment programs in order to favor reintegration working.
The project responds to these needs by overcoming the limits of mono-sectorality, optimizing the use of resources in the healthcare sector such as those available in UCBM, developing a personalized multidisciplinary and integrated clinical path in a single reference center. Furthermore, using latest generation innovative technologies such as AI, cellular regenerative therapies, minimally invasive surgical techniques with robotic navigation, neurophysiology, mechatronic and sensor technologies, the aim is to offer precision care to encourage the return to work of the patient/worker suffering from pathologies degenerative lesions of the spine.
Start and end date
Scientific manager
Responsible: Prof. Vincenzo Denaro |
Coordinating institution of the project
Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma |
Other participants
- Don Foundation Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS
- Dimeila Research Department, Internal Operational Unit, INAIL
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Funding source
Call for Collaborative Research (BRiC) 2021, INAIL |