MirRehab — Accessible Mixed-Reality Neurorehabilitation

The gap

Mirror therapy works. Almost no one can access it.

Reflecting a healthy limb over an affected one tricks the brain into rebuilding motor pathways — a proven rehab technique. But delivering it well takes therapist time, clinic visits, and VR hardware most families can't afford.

$3k–$15k

Cost of commercial VR neurorehabilitation systems — out of reach for clinics in most of the world.

6–9 mo

The critical recovery window after a stroke, when consistent daily practice matters most.

1 in 3

Patients drop out of home rehab — exercises are repetitive, unguided, and impossible to measure alone.

How it works

A phone becomes the sensor. A headset becomes the mirror.

No wearables, no depth cameras, no PC. The phone's camera tracks the body; the headset splits the view so the healthy limb's motion appears where the affected limb should move.

01 · Capture

Drop the phone in the headset

On-device pose estimation reads 30+ body keypoints from the standard camera — no extra sensors, works offline.

02 · Reflect

The brain sees a working limb

Live mirrored overlay places the healthy limb's movement onto the affected side, driving neuroplastic recovery.

03 · Measure

Every rep is scored

Joint angles, range of motion, and symmetry are logged automatically after every session.

What makes it different

The hardware is cheap. The software makes it clinical.

Software

AI-guided mirror therapy

Computer vision coaches form in real time — flagging compensation, cueing corrections, keeping motion in the therapeutic range.

Measurement

Automatic joint-angle & ROM

Objective range-of-motion tracking replaces the therapist's protractor — no manual goniometry, no guesswork.

Engagement

Gamified exercises

Reps become games with targets, streaks, and rewards — turning a chore patients quit into something they finish.

Adaptation

Personalized progression

Difficulty scales to each patient's recovering range, advancing only as measured ability improves.

Access

<$30 hardware anyone can build

A phone, a 3D-printed casing, and a mirror-lens insert — a parts list a family or rural clinic can assemble anywhere.

Market opportunity

A vast, underserved need — and a way to finally reach it.

Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability, yet most survivors never receive enough rehabilitation. Affordable at-home therapy opens a market that clinic-bound hardware cannot.

Total need

100M+ survivors

Over 100 million people live with the effects of stroke worldwide, with 12.2 million new strokes every year — most left with lasting upper-limb impairment.

Reachable market

~$5B by 2030

The global neurorehabilitation market is projected to grow past $5B by 2030. MirRehab targets the large share of patients with smartphone access who need guided upper-limb therapy.

Market figure is an estimate — replace with a cited source.

Beachhead

First 3 years

Initial focus: rehabilitation clinics, NGOs, and home users in your launch region. One low-cost kit lets a single clinic serve many more patients per therapist.

Set your target region and adoption goal.

Sources & notes: Stroke incidence and prevalence — World Stroke Organization / Global Burden of Disease. Access gap — WHO reports that most people who would benefit from rehabilitation, especially in low- and middle-income countries, do not receive it. Market-size and region figures are placeholders; replace with your cited research before submission.

Competitive edge

Cheap, guided, and measured — at home. Nothing else is all four.

Existing tools force a trade-off between cost and quality. MirRehab is the first to pair clinical guidance and objective measurement with home access at a consumer price.

	MirRehab	Commercial VR rehab	Traditional mirror box	Clinic-only therapy
Hardware cost	Under $30	$3,000+	$50–150	Per-visit fees
Where it's used	Home	Clinic	Home or clinic	Clinic only
Real-time AI guidance	Yes	Sometimes	No	Therapist-led
Objective joint-angle & ROM	Automatic	Yes	No	Manual
Gamified engagement	Yes	Yes	No	Varies
Adapts to each patient	Yes	Limited	No	Yes

The economics

From a hospital budget line to a household purchase.

Same therapeutic principle, two orders of magnitude cheaper — the difference between a treatment that lives in a clinic and one that lives at home.

Conventional VR rehab

$3,000+

Dedicated headset & tracking hardware
Proprietary PC and software license
Clinic-only, therapist-supervised sessions
Waitlists and travel for every visit

MirRehab

under $30

Runs on a phone the family already owns
Open, self-assembled headset optics
Guided daily practice at home
Objective progress tracking at home

Bill of materials	Role	Cost
Smartphone (existing)	Camera, compute, display	$0
3D-printed headset casing	Optics housing	~$8
Lens + mirror-splitter insert	Mixed-reality reflection	~$14
Head strap & assembly	Comfort & fit	~$5
Total	Complete kit	≈ $27

Business model & scale

Built to reach the people who need it most.

The hardware is nearly free and the software costs almost nothing to distribute — so growth is limited by partnerships and validation, not manufacturing.

Channel 01

Clinics & hospitals

Low-cost kits let one therapist extend guided therapy to many more patients and keep them practicing between visits.

Channel 02

NGOs & public health

Donor- and grant-funded distribution brings rehabilitation to low- and middle-income regions where clinics and devices are scarce.

Channel 03

Direct to home

Patients and families buy an affordable kit and download the app — recovery continues at home, on a phone they already own.

How it sustains itself: a free core app keeps therapy accessible, while optional premium features and low-margin hardware kits fund development. Because the software scales at near-zero marginal cost and the casing is open and 3D-printable for local production, MirRehab can grow globally without heavy capital. Pricing and channel details are illustrative — replace with your model.

Why it matters

Recovery shouldn't depend on a postcode or a paycheck.

MirRehab takes an evidence-based therapy locked inside expensive clinics and puts it in the hands of anyone with a phone — scalable across under-resourced hospitals, rural care, and home recovery worldwide.

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