VR hand rehabilitation

Motion Health VR Hand Rehabilitation

A home-based virtual reality platform designed to help people rebuild hand dexterity after degenerative cervical myelopathy surgery through markerless tracking, serious games, adaptive difficulty, and objective performance feedback.

Concept rendering. Final device design may change.

1 in 50 Adults affected by degenerative cervical myelopathy worldwide
70%+ DCM patients who experience impaired hand dexterity
9000+ Finger movements completed in a prior 4-week lab-based VR training protocol
4 weeks Training cycle used to evaluate hand-function recovery

Clinical need

Persistent hand dysfunction remains a gap after otherwise successful surgery.

Degenerative cervical myelopathy is the most common cause of non-traumatic spinal cord injury. Surgery can decompress the spinal cord, but many patients continue living with impaired fine motor control that affects handwriting, typing, utensils, tools, work, and independence.

Current home programs rely heavily on conventional therapist-prescribed exercises. They are difficult to standardize, hard to track objectively, and often do not deliver the high-repetition, task-specific practice needed for meaningful hand recovery.

The platform

High-repetition hand therapy, redesigned for home use.

Motion Health is developing a self-contained VR rehabilitation device that tracks both hands without gloves or wearable sensors and adapts therapy difficulty based on performance.

Markerless bilateral tracking

Camera-based hand tracking captures both hands simultaneously without gloves, sensors, or specialized motion-capture equipment.

Serious games

Therapy tasks train finger individuation, bilateral coordination, timing, accuracy, and suppression of unintended adjacent-finger movement.

Adaptive difficulty

Performance-responsive rules adjust task challenge using accuracy, reaction time, error rate, completion, and tracking quality.

Concept rendering of a portable hand rehabilitation device with a VR hand-training game on screen.
Concept rendering of the future home rehabilitation device. Not a final product photograph.
Concept rendering collage showing a portable foldable rehabilitation device and carrying format.
Concept rendering exploring portability, adjustable viewing angle, and compact storage.

Evidence base

A tested training approach for a defined clinical need.

Motion Health's VR hand-training approach has been tested in post-surgical DCM participants, with early clinical and home-use results supporting continued device development.

Clean line charts showing improvements in JTHFT, Box and Block Test, and pinch strength after VR hand training.
Prior VR hand training showed improvement in objective measures of hand function.
Clean charts showing home-use pilot improvements in hand function and press rate.
Initial home-use testing supported feasibility of the markerless platform.
Clinical signal

A 4-week clinical training cohort in 22 post-surgical DCM participants showed sustained improvement in hand dexterity after VR hand training.

Home feasibility

An initial home-use pilot with 4 post-surgical DCM participants completed prescribed sessions and supported feasibility of the markerless platform.

Therapeutic dose

Training emphasizes high-intensity, task-specific repetition with multisensory feedback and individualized challenge.

Device development

From tested therapy concept to launch-ready home rehabilitation device.

Development is focused on making the system simple to set up, reliable in real homes, clinically meaningful, and practical for patients to use consistently.

In development

Self-contained home VR rehabilitation device.

The next-generation device is being refined for independent setup, reliable bilateral tracking, automated calibration, objective performance capture, and adaptive difficulty.

  • Easy setup designed for home users.
  • Camera-based tracking built around both-hand training without wearables.
  • Adaptive challenge designed to keep therapy engaging and appropriately difficult.
Preparing launch

Clinical, product, and deployment readiness.

Motion Health is preparing the platform for broader home deployment, clinical workflows, service support, and commercialization conversations ahead of a future launch.

  • Define the final device configuration and software experience.
  • Prepare onboarding, support, and home-deployment workflows.
  • Prepare deployment, reimbursement, and partner strategy for launch.

Commercial path

A focused first indication with room to expand.

The first market is post-surgical DCM patients with residual hand impairment: a defined clinical population with a clear treatment pathway through spine surgery and rehabilitation clinics.

The same software-centered architecture can be adapted for other neurological and musculoskeletal conditions associated with impaired finger individuation, coordination, and hand dexterity.

Stroke Traumatic SCI Cerebral palsy Arthritis Hand trauma Post-surgical recovery

Contact

Partner, clinical, and commercialization conversations are welcome.

Motion Health is preparing for a future launch and welcomes conversations with clinical, rehabilitation, product, and commercialization partners. The form opens a prepared email so the site works without a backend.

Email: info@motionhealthtech.com