27 minutes of Smiling! What's the #BIG deal?

Long post about BIRAC #BIG impact from a patient`s angle, sharing my feelings when I visited a doctor for Knee injury diagnosis/treatment... Disclosure: I was BIG Program Manager which is being handled by Apoorva now.

I had a knee injury and its manageable, I visited an Orthopedician, who is very good and after primary examination, he felt there is an issue with knee bones and prescribed X-ray, followed by a thorough physical examination and diagnosed possible ligament injury. To know the finer details of the problem, MRI was required. I went to a renowned diagnostic center and as you can see in the bill a sum of 10,000 rupees (including a few additional tests) which wont be covered by insurance and was given next day slot for collection of report and following #BIG startups supported by IKP came to my mind who can reduce such wait times in diagnostic labs. Please refer to their websites for more details https://www.aindra.in/ https://www.brainsightai.com/ https://logy.ai/ https://www.predible.com/ https://salcit.in/ https://www.docturnal.com/ Of course, only some of them are in market and soon you would be using or getting benefited by their solutions! Imagine saving 1 day of anxiety? Priceless! bonus is saving server load for Google on trying to find out everything about possible diseases.

Like everyone else, I was also anxious and I crossed Google stage.. so reached out to #BIG startups - https://www.startoonlabs.com/ (Pheezee is a novel wearable device that generates detailed scientific reports that reflect patient's recovery during physiotherapy.?Pheezee finds its use in physiotherapy assessment of patients with orthopedic, neuromuscular and musculoskeletal disorders. Suresh would be happy to chat on this) and https://www.ashvaweartech.com/ourfitmust/ (Fitknees is a comprehensive knee joint injury assessment tool which gives all necessary and sufficient parameters for knee pain, TKR and PKR! Anmol would be happy to explain more). Both teams led by energetic founders, who were kind enough to share details of physiotherapists deploying their solutions and offered to analyse and share their insights. It was an amazing experience knowing the efficiency of knees, movement, effort required by muscles for a specified moment with quantifiable data and all this in less than an hour.

As you can see the reports that will be in your mailbox/mobile with in a few minutes and I am sure very soon, physiotherapist near you would be using them to track the progress of the treatment/exercise/rehab, which I intend to use in my follow up rehabilitation.

I am going on a short planned leave for a minor surgery and requesting BIG communication to [email protected] and looking forward to solutions that would help in faster rehab. Who know may be - Rymo (Team of highly motivated engineers, designers and makers, leveraging technology to make physiotherapy more objective, engaging and fun https://www.rymo.in/services-2) or beablehealth (that makes therapy more enjoyable and interactive with built-in rehabilitation games to enrich the physical therapy experience! https://www.beablehealth.com/) or SOUJHE (Active & Passive, Upper & Lower Limb Rehab https://soujhe.com/soujhe-innovative-products/) and of course Dozee https://www.dozee.health/ that helped reduce anxiety during COVID and continues to share my sleep insights!

27 minutes of Smiling! What's the #BIG deal? Its about myself trying to smile in claustrophobic MRI scanning experience with uncomfortable sounds for 27 minutes... I am sure, most of our startups would have added an option to hang a book to read (without metal on that bed with auto page rotate option)... If you think you can or want to make a difference, we will be happy to help. I might have described startups from physiotherapy and diagnostics space but we have 165 BIG awardees working in various fields - medical devices, diagnostics, drugs & biosimilars, industrial biotech, waste management, clean energy and agri. IKP as a BIG Partner would be glad to help you. Please reach Apoorva at [email protected] for any queries. I would like to invite you for BIG webinar at 4.30 pm on 20th July Register here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaI_8cVbQThlWMXiIMYaBumBphYoLpiberM4t9X85NkEcttw/viewform You can also view the previous webinar "The BIG Perspective" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGtDP1M5m5Y The focus of the webinar was "Perspectives from APPLICANTs, REVIEWERs and AWARDEEs". I take this opportunity to thank BIRAC, IKP and all the innovators who are making this Innovation ecosystem a better place to create a positive impact on the lives of people!

Update: I received 2 messages about product that could help faster and better rehabilitation, one is "Stand At Ease" a chair that reduces impact while sitting and helps to stand comfortably and intuitively at amazing designers and engineers from IISc. More details on their website https://transleadmedtech.com/. Another product is from Ubreathe that accelerates air indoor purification naturally and more details could be found here https://www.ubreathe.in/ So that you can stay at your home happily!

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