According to published research, 75% of stroke survivors suffer from arm movement damage. Yet only 15% of patients fully recover, due to what our next guest says is the limited availability of therapy, lack of customization to individual needs, and low compliance to recommended home therapy exercises. So he came up with a new method in the form of a game called Duck Duck Punch that won him the 2014 Small Enterprise Award from Innovision, a SC technology awards program.
Mike Switzer interviews Austen Hayes, CEO of Recovr, based in Spartanburg, SC.
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.