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Gautam Sadarangani on the importance of measuring and gamifying physical therapy exercises

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Release Date: 11/29/2021

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Gautam Sadarangani is the President & COO/CTO of TENZR by BioInteractive Technologies, a digital health system that provides a better way to retrain movement for the hand, wrist, and elbow.

 

Top 3 Takeaways:

  • "Our core competence here is the fact that we're able to measure the limb with sufficient accuracy and sufficient resolution for rehabilitation purposes while being very unobtrusive for the person to wear essentially 24/7"
  • "Quantifying and motivating is a big deal. It's not different than when you're trying to lose weight and use a weighing scale. You need those parameters to tell you if you're moving in the right direction."
  • Using TENZR technology increases the motivation of patients to stick with the recovery program

2:30 " Let's talk about the technology a little bit. How does it work? Why does it work?"

3:45 "How precise is it and how precise do you need to be for this rehabilitation process?"

5:00 "So what would be a typical patient and how long would they be using the device?"

9:15 "You guys are a startup and you guys have raised money. How far along in the process are you and what does the next five years look like?" 

11:30 "You had a very interesting story. How you came into this you grew up in Singapore, but also you worked at a company, a different company before, before coming here. Did you want to talk about both of those things?"

13:45 What's been your experience of my Neurotech Mastermind Peer Support Group?

15:45 "Is there anything that we didn't talk about that you wanted to mention?"