Praxis SCI Accelerate Cohort 2023-24

Praxis Spinal Cord Institute is excited to announce the cohort of Praxis SCI Accelerate, a 6 months accelerator program aimed at advancing the commercialization of technology to transform the lives of people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Our cohort, encompassing companies across the key SCI focus areas for Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, represent a variety of backgrounds and have already demonstrated significant traction in their fields. These companies have been carefully selected by a panel of SCI consumers, researchers, commercial leaders in healthcare — as addressing key gaps in care for people with SCI, but also with a potential to transform healthcare outcomes for the broader community.

Harmony SHR™ is a bilateral upper extremity exoskeleton that works with a patient’s scapulohumeral rhythm (SHR) to enable natural, comprehensive arm and shoulder therapy for those living with neurological and musculoskeletal movement impairments.

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Inochi Care is a health tech start up developing innovative solutions for wound care and management. Inochi Care is an IP and tech driven company with focus on wound care products that are designed and engineered for scale and adoption across healthcare sectors and different markets. The technology development is inspired by “patient needs” as well as “healthcare provider needs”. With their mission to “Healing the Non healing wounds”, the first range of products are developed for accelerated healing of non-healing wounds including pressure ulcers. InoHeal is a multi-therapeutic technology to create and maintain optimum wound healing environment at the wound site using biophysical stimulation. Their goal is to reduce patient’s pain and suffering, decrease daily loss of productivity, cut down the financial burden that results from non-healing wounds.

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Karma Medical Products Ltd. (KMP) is an Alberta corporation that manufactures rehabilitation equipment. The business has its headquarters and all operations in Edmonton, Alberta.  KMP’s vision is to provide affordable medical rehabilitation devices to get patients back in action faster.  KMP values health and safety of our employees and others that use our facilities, products and services.    KMP’s first product is the FEPSim®, a rehabilitation medical, which is a device that simulates daily activities for patients with hand and wrist functionality impairment.  Via adjustable resistance and functional accessories, it exercises common motions, focusing on the Flexion, Extension, Pronation, Supination of the wrist and lower arm.

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UPnRIDE Robotics is a sedentary lifestyle, due to confinement to a wheelchair, leads to poor health, reduced quality of life, low self-esteem, and high medical costs. UPnRIDE Robotics aims to change the life of millions of wheelchair users by introducing the UPnRIDE – a smart robotic mobility device. UPnRIDE is far more than a wheelchair: It is the first and only wheeled motorized device, which enables wheelchair users to become mobile, while in a standing position, in practically any urban environment, both outdoors and indoors, and thus improves health, enhances self-esteem, and reduces medical and other disability costs. UPnRIDE Robotics Ltd. began its operation in June 2014 with a founding team that has an aggregate of over 100 years of experience, including the introduction of ReWalk.

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