Neurofenix is an innovative digital therapeutics start-up dedicated to make stroke rehabilitation affordable and enjoyable.
1 in 6 people will have a stroke in their lifetime. Most survivors
lose control of an arm and the best chance to recover is through
intensive physiotherapy, but it is very hard for them to access it
because public healthcare systems such as the NHS are under-resourced
and private physiotherapy is expensive. Neurofenix has developed the
solution to this problem: the Gameball Platform, which has been
developed with stroke survivors and physiotherapists since day one.
Dimitris (co-founder) and Guillem are weekly volunteers at stroke
support groups in London, where they have spent hundreds of hours
understanding the needs and problems of stroke survivors involving them
in the development of the Gameball.
The Gameball Platform is designed for all-in-one home-based
rehabilitation for stroke survivors to improve the functionality of
their upper limb. It consists of a low-cost hand training device
connected wirelessly to a mobile application. Stroke survivors place
their hand on top of the controller and can train their whole upper
limb, from fingers to shoulder. The Gameball App lets them play games
especially designed to make rehabilitation exercises entertaining, it
tracks their progress and allows stroke survivors to share their scores
with other survivors, making rehabilitation fun and social for the first
time.
Guillem’s goal is for every stroke survivors to use a Gameball in
their home to accompany them through their recovery journey. The
Gameball Platform will connect stroke survivors around the world and
Neurofenix will be the leader in providing affordable and engaging
neurological rehabilitation.
The
Gameball Platform will empower millions of survivors to self-manage
their own therapy and reduce the ever-growing economic burden of stroke,
effectively democratizing rehabilitation. In the future, the company
envisions using machine learning to predict recovery after a stroke
based on all the data gathered from the improvement of millions of
stroke survivors and expanding their product line. Finally, Guillem
believes their technology will have applications beyond stroke recovery.
There are other conditions that demand physical and cognitive
rehabilitation such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury,
cerebral palsy, hand injury and osteoarthrosis that could benefit from
their technology.
Neurofenix is currently looking for forward-thinking physiotherapists
and enthusiastic stroke survivors to try out the Gameball Platform. The
company is backed by Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, the
Royal Academy of Engineering, the Nominet Trust and Entrepreneur First.
