Virtual rehabilitation with accessable technology

According to the World Health Organization, up to 30% of world population live with a condition that benefits of rehabilitation. In low income countries, up to 50% of the population does not receive the rehabilitation they require. In recent years, VR tools have been successfully applied to help recover patients. VR is said to accelerate recovery from 2 to 3 times. Recently, some COVID-19 recovered patients have also suffered from disability caused by some neurological damages.

The classic rehabilitation process is slow because of the difficulty of moving around in some cases and the lack of patient involvement given the non-interactivity of the sessions. In addition, classic rehabilitation has difficulties to set up follow-up KPIs which make it possible to track the evolution and the improvements to better target the progress of the sessions. Virtual reality could be combined with conventional rehabilitation for the improvement of arm or leg movement control after stroke and various other diseases such as post-Covid syndromes. The classic rehabilitation process is generally slow, virtual rehabilitation can speed up the process up to two to three times. And they give patients the ability to practice daily activities in a virtual world.

The solution makes use of widely available  a smartphone or a laptop where the camera detects the patient's movement and transcribes it into a virtual world with actions/missions to be carried out adapted to the patient's condition and his motor skills to encourage him to improve his gestures. We also propose to improve the performance of our system by adding haptic feedback ( vibration of the joystick) to the patient to provide him with a more realistic and immersive experience. Additionally 3D motion analysis sensors can also be used in the future to increase tracking accuracy as well as to accurately measure the healing process. Continuous monitoring of hand parameters allows therapists to monitor the effectiveness of this type of rehabilitation.

Our 2D tracking solution uses a smartphone or laptop camera for motion detection. This same device performs the data processing. This technology allows our project to be very accessible to therapists, even in disadvantaged regions, which allows us a significant penetration of our solution. The other competitors use specific hardware which is in some cases even obsolete (kinect: out of production by Microsoft) and depends on the availability of these auxiliaries. Our solution can be applied with simple tablet or laptop.   This consideration opens the door for greater flexibility for home treatment and tele-rehabilitation. 

Mohamed Kharrat PhD. CEO: serial entrepreneur and IOT expert. He have long experience in fund rising and startup management. He have long experience in wearable technology and sensor fusion.

Kais Siala, CTO: Multimedia engineer. He have long experience in computer vision and virtual reality. He is coaching the technical staff. He have also a good knowledge on the certification process.

Mohamed Belghith, CMO: occupational therapist at Sfax University Hospital. He gives the medical point of view before developing the technical content. All our simulation and KPIs emanates from his experience. He is doing clinical trials in Sfax University Hospital. He is an international lecture and have good national and international relationships in rehabilitation community.

Bassem Mazghouni: Game developer. 

Mahdi Kharrat: marketing expert

FDA & CE certification fees 

Logistics and marketing fees

Public Relation 

Introduction to investors

The majority of the competitors use Kinect technology which is no longer developed by Microsoft and thus becomes obsolete. In addition, competitors solution are dedicated for high incomes countries and requires special hardware, making them not easily accessible for low incomes countries. This gives us a great competitive advantage as our solution uses Tablet and Laptop frontal cameras. Our solution also presents different display modes (Tablet, laptop, TV, datashow) which could be used by rehabilitation centers according to the medical contexts.

Finally, the technological accessibility of our solution makes it possible to target not only low incomes countries, but also developed particularly remote regions as well as cities suffering from saturation in the health care services.

2022 Rehabilitation centers in developing and low incomes countries

2022-2023 Home virtual rehabilitation 

2024-2025 Live Tele rehabilitation

Number of active users

KPIs for patients recovery progress 

Number of recovered patients

All these KPIs should respect local regulation regarding the processing of patient medical information. 

Home therapy solution with medical prescription will help patients in remote areas to practice virtual rehabilitation at home reducing the number of times they have to frequent rehabilitation centers. This will accelerate the healing process. The patient engagement is more prominent with our propose interactive scenarios. The benefit behind combining classic rehabilitation with the virtual one has been proven by many research helping accelerating the recovery process from two to three times. In the future we are also considering adding further features such as remote telemedicine rehabilitation sessions will be interactive between the therapist and patient who will be no longer obliged to go to the rehabilitation center for several times.

We are using tablets or laptops frontal cameras for motion tracking and data processing. The solution relies on 2D color tracking using OpenCV library. We are planning to use also Arkit library in IOS devices for 3D tracking which allows us to develop new specific scenarios. We are also developing our low cost sensor hardware for more tracking precision in the context of recovey evaluation dedicated for rehabilitation centers.

We are aware of this issue. In our clinical trials, we propose our solution to patients from different groups without any restriction. Our solution is also aimed to help poeple all over the world regardless their ethnicity, gender, nationality or other. Even more, our solution is well suited for low income regions and poor countries since we try define our pricing according to regional income. We also provide number free license to public hospitals in low income countries as well as their patients.

Subscription-based with fixed annual fees

B2B for rehabilitation centers

B2B2C rehabilitation centers presecribe rehabilitation session for patients at homes well as telerahabilitation in the future.

Seed Grants to pay our full time developer

Funds and sells for full time dedication of the funding team

Funds and sells for marketing and logistic fees

Funds and sells for certification (FDA and CE)

Funds and sells for solution deveopment

Funds and sells for hardware acquisition

Fund by soukettanmia 10k$(supported by Africain bank and US embassy in Tunisia)

Seed funding and incubation by Connect'Innov Tunisia (supported by EU and Tunisian Government) 5kEuro 

Funding by AIR program  10k$ (Smart capital Tunisia)