RESC partners with ETH-spinoff VAY
ETH Zurich’s Competence Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Science (RESC) partners with ETH-spinoff VAY. The technology developed by the start-up digitizes human movement to track range of motion for application in physical therapy, rehabilitation, and digital health apps.
Founded in 2018 by ETH robotics graduate Joel Roos and HSG graduate Ben Simon, VAY's mission is to democratize professional human motion analysis through readily available consumer devices. By making lab-quality human motion analysis accessible to everyone, VAY is enabling novel prevention, diagnosis, and treatment methods for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and increasing physical health. VAY's AI-driven solution enables physical therapists to provide real-time tracking and audio feedback to their rehabilitation patients from any device and camera, making location-independent, virtual therapy a reality.
While VAY currently has a strong foundation in the fitness space, they are growing their partner base within the health industry and will continue to expand our market reach. It is our goal to be a recognized provider of human motion analysis solutions for both injury prevention with fitness solutions and e-health rehabilitation. “We see a great synergy within RESCs mission and our own — to work toward a personalized, long-term, independent focused rehabilitation treatment and prevention for patients.”, says Ben Simon of the new partnership.
Oliver Stoller, Executive Manager RESC: “VAY can provide a key part for the implementation of remote prevention and rehabilitation services, which makes the company of high interest to the RESC network.”
The ETH Competence Centre RESC is a nexus of expertise from academia, hospitals, industry, government, healthcare, disability organisations, and other NPOs. Its mission is to improve the quality of life and participation of people with physical disabilities; thus contributing towards a more inclusive society. RESC promotes exchange, interdisciplinary research projects, innovative education programmes, and knowledge transfer.
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