Our mission is to revolutionize how patients assess their range of motion
By leveraging customized pose estimation models, we aim to empower patients with accessible, accurate, and easy-to-use tools that allow them to take control of their health monitoring. We envision a future where patients can take a more active role in their recovery.
Our Story
ArmorMed was founded to address a crucial gap in healthcare delivery. Patients with orthopedic or neurological injuries need regular range of motion monitoring to track recovery progress. Current manual goniometry methods are unreliable and inefficient, requiring inconvenient in-clinic visits that are impractical for busy patients, those living far from their provider, and those with limited mobility. We saw an opportunity to bridge this gap by leveraging advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
The Solution
ArmorMed packages complex pose estimation and angle measurement algorithms into a simple, all-in-one tool. Range of motion is assessed based on videos provided by users, who can then track their mobility over time and share results with their healthcare teams.
Sundeep Chakladar
Founder
Sundeep is a medical student at WashU School of Medicine with a strong interest in building technology that improves how we study disease and deliver care. His passion for software solutions began during his undergraduate years at MIT, where his research focused on developing automated image analysis pipelines for biomedical data. Through this work, he developed practical programming skills and an understanding of how machine learning and computer vision could impact both basic science and clinical medicine. As a medical student, he has applied his skills to interdisciplinary projects that combine medicine and software development, such as creating tools that automatically detect subtle fractures on x-rays or congenital diseases on brain MRIs. With his background in computer vision and machine learning, Sundeep brings an automation-focused mindset to the problem of inefficient range of motion assessment.
David Brogan, MD
Founder
Dr. Brogan is an orthopedic surgeon at WashU who specializes in treating all injuries and conditions of the hand and upper extremity. He has special expertise in performing peripheral nerve surgery, complex microsurgical reconstruction, and upper extremity trauma care. He has over a decade of experience with research focusing on peripheral nerve injuries and compression neuropathies. He maintains a basic science laboratory dedicated to peripheral nerve research with funding from the NIH, the Department of Defense, the Orthopedic Research & Education Foundation, the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand, the American College of Surgeons and the Mid-America Orthopedic Association. His current research focuses on nerve regeneration, identifying ways to image nerve injury intra-operatively and improving the surgical treatment of complex injuries to the upper extremities. Dr. Brogan's experience with orthopedic and peripheral nerve injury patients has exposed him to the inefficiencies in post-surgery range of motion assessment, motivating him to seek more efficient solutions.