Adelaide startup Prohab is creating a device to help athletes with injury rehabilitation

Medical rehabilitation company Prohab has developed cutting edge hardware that helps athletes and patients recover from injury.

The Adelaide-based company built a hardware device with sensors that clips into exercise resistance bands or testing equipment which then connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth. As soon as a person uses the band, data is captured and fed instantly to an app so they can measure how hard a person is going, how much they’re doing and how to progress effectively.

The device can be used in conjunction with physiotherapists and medical professionals to help treat patients. It’s the device’s potential that is the most exciting, with industries including sports, fitness, medical and healthcare a potential target.

Prohab CEO Lyndon Huf spoke about his company’s development and how his dad encouraged him to go hard and pursue this idea.

We’ll start with the conception of the idea. As you’re a physiotherapist, what moments necessitated such an idea?

This story really started from my mother, she was on a caravan trip up the east coast of Australia with my father and she tripped and fell on a footpath and landed face first, and put her arm out and hurt her shoulder. Through the course of time she was having a lot of problems with her shoulder, and with the physiotherapist she was seeing. She rang me up and asked ‘can I have some free treatment? I’m not doing too well, I’m struggling to sleeping well at night, I can’t manage.’ Read more

Clint Vojdinoski - Startup Daily - 8 Jun 2018