E-Mail A team of researchers from Dartmouth has been awarded nearly $225,000 from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop and test "BandPass," a remote-sensing resistance band exercise system that would allow health care providers to monitor, evaluate, and guide patients as they use the device in their homes. "There's a huge disparity in what clinicians and physical therapists think goes on in at-home rehabilitation programs and what actually happens," said Principal Investigator Ryan Halter, professor of engineering and of surgery at Dartmouth, as well as co-founder of SynchroHealth, LLC, the company that was awarded the grant. "This disconnect often results in changes to the provider's future treatment plans and could ultimately lead to unnecessary interventions that increase costs and potential risks to the patient. We're aiming to close that gap."