IIT Hyderabad Graduate’s Startup Develops Arm Rehabilitation Centre
Be Able, a start-up by a Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship IIT-H pass out, Habib Ali has come up with, Arm Able, an arm-rehabilitation device, that focuses on helping patients suffering from different motor deficit disorders. It uses the functionalities of a game to provide the needed help.
A start-up from the Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H) by the name of Be Able Health Private Limited with an arm-rehabilitation device, Arm Able. The purpose of the device is to help patients of strokes, as well as act as a motor rehabilitation device for those patients who suffer from an upper motor deficit, caused due to various conditions such as traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, frozen shoulder or a fracture.
Be Able is the brainchild of Habib Ali, who is also the Chief Operating Officer of the company, is among the first passouts from the Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship at IIT-H. Prof UB Desai who is the Head of Operations at the Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship stated that the Arm Able has received an impressive response from various hospitals as well as experts from the industry. He further added that Be Able has already received 10 requests to order Arm Able from some of the top hospitals which also includes an international request from the United Kingdom.
In the words of Prof Desai, a person who suffers from paralysis or any other motor deficit disorders requires help from a physiotherapist or take up Physiotherapy sessions to regains motor control of the different parts of the body. Now, with the invention of the device, a person will be able to do so, by himself/herself, with the help of a game that has been developed by the team led by Habib Ali.
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Habib Ali had demonstrated the device in the presence of the media as well as officials from the Institute. During the demonstration, he announced that Arm Able is one of the first devices to have entered Indian Rehabilitation scenario currently. He also stated that such a device exists in international markets, however, the cost incurred by the customers were high. He announced that Arm Able was being sold to the respective customers for a price of ₹3 lakhs. He also declared that the device will also be rentable for a price of ₹10,000 per month.
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KG Sreehari, Co-founder and the Marketing Head of the company stated that the prospective customers to whom they plan to sell the device include Rehabilitation Centres, Physiotherapy Clinics as well as Hospitals. Innovating a device that will help patients suffering from different motor deficit disorders at such a cheap price, especially India, means that common man will now be able to recover from such an obstructive disorder which renders them incapable of providing for themselves. This might be the answer to those patients who have been waiting to be dependable on themselves alone.