REHABTEK, LLC

Facilitating neuroplastic changes of acute stroke survivors with severe hemiplegia

REHABTEK, LLC is a business in national institute of neurological disorders and stroke based in Linthicum Heights, MD, founded in 2000.

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Stroke is a leading cause of adult disability, with more than 795,000 people having a stroke in the United States each year. Stroke survivors often experience loss of motor control and impaired function. Immediately after stroke, there is a time-limited window of heightened plasticity during which the greatest gains in recovery occur. Therefore, early intensive sensorimotor rehabilitation post-stroke is critical in improving functional outcomes and minimizing disability. As recommended in a national guideline, “rehabilitation therapy should start as early as possible, once medical stability is reached”. However, acute stroke survivors often receive little active training to improve mobility during their hospital stay and they are left alone during most of the day. Especially for those acute patients with no voluntary motor output (Manual muscle testing MMT=0), active motor training might be even less, partly due to a lack of rehabilitation protocols to detect potential motor recovering signals sensitively and facilitate neuroplastic changes. Although a number of rehabilitation devices have been developed for stroke rehabilitation, few of them is suitable for the critical period of early in-bed rehabilitation, especially for patients with MMT=0, to provide timely motor-sensory training during the critical time window early post stroke. To address this unmet clinical need, the p

The company sits in the national institute of neurological disorders and stroke segment, where it competes on its core product or service.

Its base of operations is Linthicum Heights, MD.

The company is listed at the SBIR/STTR stage of development.

Its team size is recorded as 1-10 employees.

Public records show total funding of about $1.3M.

Website: rehabtek.com