This month's feature is on one of our amazing members Immersive Rehab; a digital health startup improving patient recovery with Virtual Reality neurorehabilitation programmes.
Dr Isabel Van De Keere is the Founder & CEO of Immersive Rehab, a digital health startup transforming neurorehabilitation by offering personalised and engaging neurorehabilitation programmes in Virtual Reality with the aim to improve patient recovery, enhance patient assessments for healthcare professionals, and reduce waiting times to access rehab.
Following a long neurorehabilitation period herself due to a work accident in 2010, Isabel decided to start Immersive Rehab in August 2016. With a MSc background in Electro-Mechanical Engineering and as a Doctor in Biomedical Engineering & BioMaterials Science, Isabel is an experienced healthcare technology innovator, product designer and manager, innovation consultant, scientist, experimentalist, and collaborator across disciplines.
She is passionate about healthcare technologies and digital health, immersive technologies and its applications in healthcare, tech for good, social entrepreneurship, and promoting diversity in tech.
What is Immersive Rehab’s mission?
We are addressing an urgent need in healthcare and more particular in neurorehabilitation services for people affected by neurological conditions like stroke, spinal injury and multiple sclerosis. Immersive Rehab’s vision is to empower these patients and give them more independence back by providing access to engaging and personalised digital therapeutics neurorehabilitation solutions, with the aim to improve patient outcomes and increase access to necessary services.
What is innovative about our work?
Immersive Rehab’s mission is to transform and improve the way neurorehabilitation is currently being approached by offering personalised and engaging neurorehabilitation programmes in Virtual Reality. Our aim with our digital therapeutics solution is to achieve important gains in a patient’s mobility and function beyond what can be achieved with current neurorehabilitation practices, focusing in particular on improving upper limb & fine motor function and balance for patients affected by neurological disorders such as stroke, spinal injury, MS and ALS.