Community Therapy Podcast
Welcome to the Community Therapy Podcast, hosted by Community Therapy founder and director, Scott Lynch. Scott absolutely loves community healthcare and is passionate about healthcare businesses being built on the delivery of great healthcare! Scott commenced his professional career as a Physiotherapist and continues to love nothing more then supporting clients. Most of his time is now spent being privileged and blessed to support and be surrounded by the Community Therapy team. You will find a mix of interviews with:- health professionals about evidence based health care in the community- business founders and managers about how to operate outstanding healthcare businesses- organisations that support the community health sector. We aim to spread awareness about all aspects of community healthcare to ensure people have access to outstanding community and mobile healthcare services.
Community Therapy Podcast
Episode 15 - Tech Gym
In this episode Scott Lynch (Managing Director of Community Therapy) and Rowan Smith, (Founder of Tech Gym).
Scott is Chair of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s NSW Gerontology Committee and Managing Director of Community Therapy; a company he started 5 years ago that has grown to a team of 70 Physios, OTs, Dietitians, Speech Pathologists and Massage Therapists. Community Therapy delivers values-driven community, aged and disability allied health services across the Hunter and Central Coast regions of NSW.
Today’s Guest
Rowan Smith is an engineer and founded Tech Gym in 2018 to enable stroke survivors to return home with higher levels of independence.
Inspired by helping his 94-year-old grandmother through her stroke rehabilitation he wanted to improve the rehabilitation process for patients and therapists.
Tech Gym develops robotic rehabilitation devices that can assist rehabilitation therapists in their day-to-day operations. They currently support upper limb rehabilitation for a range of disabilities. They aim to remove the struggles and pains that 1000's of therapists experience every day by reducing the physical labour required to rehabilitate a patient.
Things you will learn
- what Tech Gym does as a company
- how Rowan found his passion to build technology for “good”
- barriers to delivering evidence-based practice in Stroke rehabilitation
- how Rowan started Tech Gym and tips and tricks on founding a start-up
- how the "metaverse" and augmented reality will apply to rehabilitation
Resources
- LinkedIn - Scott Lynch https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlynchct/
- LinkedIn - Rowan Smith https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowan-j-smith/
- Tech Gym - https://techgym.com.au/