Technology Magazine January 2020 | Page 32

DIGITAL STRATEGY
32 of collectibles to aim for to increase your score , and successive levels of difficulty within each activity . As you might imagine , considering the different capabilities of patients , the range of motion necessary to control what is happening can be tweaked , just as with the Pro .
There ’ s an intentional symmetry to the setting of the activities and the ways in which they are controlled . You might be tasked with piloting a plane by stretching out your arms and bending at the hips , or controlling an animal as it crosses a road by stepping in place . The effect is to distract you from the repetitive
exercises that are the meat and potatoes of rehabilitation .
That , however , is not Tadi ’ s preferred term for what MindMaze is doing . “ It ’ s not just neurorehabilitation ,” he says . “ I call it neurorestoration , because what we ’ re able to do with our platform is to accelerate the ability of the brain to learn and recover .” That philosophy bleeds into MindMaze ’ s future plans . “ Both injured brains and healthy brains share similar mechanisms . By understanding the injured brain , we can do a lot for the healthy brain too .” MindMotion products have helped in extraordinary recoveries , such as that of Andy Ibbot
JANUARY 2020