A fresh MBA pass-out is changing the world of post-stroke treatment with his new brilliant idea that is\u00a0also quite enjoyable for the patients to go through. Who wouldn\u2019t like to have their stroke-paralyzed\u00a0limbs to get back into voluntary animation with fun computer games? I know I would if that was the\u00a0case with me.<\/p>\n
Hoyoung Ban shares the pain of those who suffer from post-stroke paralysis and worse have succumbed\u00a0to their final doom from stroke as he could not share his joy of graduating from the Korea Advanced\u00a0Institute of Science and Technology with his father, who passed away from stroke before he could.<\/p>\n
Soon after this two of Ban\u2019s uncles also suffered from stroke, while they did not lose the battle with\u00a0death but did fail to complete the rehabilitation process. That was mostly due to the high costs of\u00a0treatment to rehabilitate the functioning of their limbs. Such experiences and seeing his uncles lose use\u00a0of their hands gave Ban the idea to use computer games as he had some personal interest with this\u00a0issue.<\/p>\n
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He expressed special interest in his friend\u2019s research with robotics and stroke rehabilitation\u00a0algorithms to gain a PhD from the University of Southern California.\u00a0His research had a prototype built for helping stroke victims regain the use of their hands using some\u00a0attractive computer gaming with robotics hardware. But the only glitch in completing was to arrange for\u00a0the hardware which was proving to be too expensive for commercialization.<\/p>\n
This gave Ban the idea to put his expertise in business as he had launched several businesses including\u00a0one where he targeted online TV for Koreans based in Los Angeles. So he put his entrepreneurial\u00a0thinking skills to test and dived into this project that he personally felt so much affinity to. He was about\u00a0to acquire an MBA from the University of Virginia\u2019s Darden School of Business and this gave the right\u00a0opportunity to make contacts with experts connected to this field.<\/p>\n
Soon a recipe for success was achieved when Ban combined his start-up knowledge with MBA tools\u00a0from Virginia University and married it to Choi\u2019s technological know-how to find a good solution to the\u00a0problem with commercializing the hardware for post-stroke rehabilitation against those paralyzed.<\/p>\n
And the result of these efforts gave birth to a new avenue of digital healthcare technology using\u00a0something truly amazing. Robotics combined with interactive computer games that can be used to\u00a0rehabilitate the limbs of post-stroke paralysis victims find new hope to regain their functions. They will\u00a0be launching the paper soon on the trials of the research which took them about two years, one year on\u00a0the trials and another year for writing the paper for the trials.<\/p>\n
However, the results were amazing and\u00a0the whole medical as well as robotics and digital industry is all ears to learn about this revolutionary new\u00a0treatment method and how much will it cost for rehabilitating post-stroke paralyzed patients. Ban\u00a0revealed in a statement that pro-active communications and regular feedbacks are essential for the\u00a0success of any new product development venture.<\/p>\n
Source : \u00a0http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/b382894c-b61a-11e5-b147-e5e5bba42e51.html#axzz3xrA1QPB7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"