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#News(Startup) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
“Despite improvements in mortality and morbidity, there is a serious lack of rehabilitation therapies for stroke survivors especially in developing countries like India. It is important that we make them feel normal and well at home, and not remain housebound or bedridden patients at the hospital for months”, say Deepika & Krishna, the co-innovators of GloveiT — a smart glove for assisted physiotherapy, which uses playing games on a smartphone/tablet as the means to aid the rehabilitation and recovery of limbs as well as regularly monitor the progress of the recovery process post surgery.
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Typically stroke patients are discharged after a few weeks of recovery therapy being admitted in the hospital, but even then carry disabilities for a much longer period. Home based exercises are taught at the time of discharge along with intermittent physiotherapy sessions at a minimum of Rs. 600/day. Even for those who can afford the results are never guaranteed.Presently there are very expensive and complex AR/VR based solutions with head-mounted displays and expensive gloves with embedded electro-mechanical movement enablers to aid in the process of self-rehabilitation — imagine getting stroke patients to use very complicated devices and gadgets to play games to help them recover from their motor impairments. Very few can afford them and the cost and complexity is not justified against the incremental benefits offered. In addition there are monitoring devices (Goniometer) used by therapists to monitor the recovery progress only when patients come for therapy sessions.
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