{"id":1039715,"date":"2026-09-30T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039715"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:35:15","slug":"vr-headset-invented-by-kerala-mans-firm-set-to-rewrite-stroke-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/vr-headset-invented-by-kerala-mans-firm-set-to-rewrite-stroke-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"VR headset invented by Kerala man\u2019s firm set to rewrite stroke therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Rehabilitation after a stroke is often a gruelling journey. Beyond the physical trauma, patients face long recovery timelines requiring endless, repetitive motions. Compounding this challenge is a severe shortage of certified physiotherapists and the high cost of hospital-bound care, which leads many patients to abandon therapy mid-way. <\/p>\n<p>A groundbreaking collaboration between Chennai-based immersive-technology firm Skillveri and Thiruvananthapuram\u2019s Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) aims to rewrite this narrative using virtual reality (VR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Rehabilitation after a stroke is often a gruelling journey. Beyond the physical trauma, patients face long recovery timelines requiring endless, repetitive motions. Compounding this challenge is a severe shortage of certified physiotherapists and the high cost of hospital-bound care, which leads many patients to abandon therapy mid-way. A groundbreaking collaboration between Chennai-based immersive-technology firm Skillveri and Thiruvananthapuram\u2019s Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) aims to rewrite this narrative using virtual reality (VR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039735,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039715\/revisions\/1039735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}