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Portable Virtual Reality Device Improves Neuroplasticity For Stroke Victims

The Mindmaze platform, developed by a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), enables the rehabilitation and personalized tracking of stroke victims through stimulating virtual reality exercises. The platform's device, named MindPlayPRO, allows clinicians and caregivers to effectively handle several patients simultaneously. Placed at the patient's bedside, the MindPlayPRO system has two screens on articulated arms. Caregivers can program the machine and obtain data from a high-resolution camera and track patient progress. The patient screen shows the 3D avatar of the patient with an exercise to perform – for example, to hit a target in the center of a colored circle. The accuracy required can be adapted according to the patient's specific challenges. The device makes the patient's brain believe that the immobilized body part is still working, which enables early reactivation of neuronal connections. After being tested tested at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) in Switzerland for two years, MindPlayPRO is now being introduced into the market.

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    00:00:04 we call this device mind play Pro and it's the first truly portable neuro rehabilitation device for stroke patients that can be taken to the bedside and maximizes both therapeutic and diagnostic parameters for them over the last two years we've been able to constantly develop and test our prototypes and technology to evolve into a product at the University Hospital in

    00:00:27 Lausanne we've had a lot of feedback from patients and therapists and neuro physicians who see many advantages of this technology for a baseline patients just find it so much fun and much more interactive to keep practicing which is important they maximize the practice and therapists now start seeing the benefits of having objective data which is much more simple to read simple to set up and

    00:00:50 it's easily tailor-made and all of this makes it much much more robust for us to integrate such a product into their therapeutic context and that is our advantage so far we now have a very exciting stage for product development we have different possibilities from here on what we want to do now next is combine neuro physiological measurements with virtual reality technology so we

    00:01:14 want to see how this amalgam can bring more benefits in the early phases we also have a development line for more compact products for home use and then expand to other deficits how we can help spinal cord injury patients how we can help full-body deficits motor deficits gait deficits and that's the goal and then in the next year's is to take this line further