Helping recover mobility and re-educate balance in patients who have suffered a stroke is the main objective of NEUROFIT, a Pioneering and unique gym in Spain that combines state-of-the-art technology with its own working method based on three pillars: gamificationthe removal of barriers and the progressiveness.
Mari Paz Bureo is the promoter of NEUROFIT, a gym adapted to help patients who have suffered neurological damage
Located in Badajoz, this center is equipped with state-of-the-art compressed air machines and part of the technology used in its facilities is used by NASA for one of your projects. As the director of the center, Mari Paz Bureo, points out, “Our goal is to help regain mobility and independence to people who have suffered a neurological injury or any other injury that affects motor skills, as well as to stop its deterioration in the shortest possible time and in a fun way”.
This unique method, which has helped so far from year to more than 200 patients who have suffered some type of neurological damage, will reach other cities. Specifically, the firm plans to open a new center Neurofit in Madridwhich will be added to the existing one in Badajoz, with which it will seek to reach a greater number of patients, thus cementing the subsequent development of a national network.
To do this, they have opened a through the social impact platform, the Stock Exchange, the first participatory financing platform authorized by the CNMV, which connects impact investors and companies that generate a positive social and/or environmental impact, through which it expects to raise between 150,000 and 188,000 euros.The investment is made through equity crowdfunding, in an agile, simple and transparent way, and with a minimum investment of around 1,000 euros. If the financing objective is reached, Bolsa Social formalizes the capital increase on behalf of all investors. If this is not achieved, contributions are returned at no cost to investors.
Center It is the dream of the entrepreneur from Extremadura, Mari Paz Bureo, who knows first-hand the problems of her patients: she herself suffered an accident at a very young age that caused her a head injury with different sequelae, including a limitation of her visual field. Even so, with an acknowledgment of the 53% disabilitygraduated in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapyand in 2011 he founded Fisioasistencia, his first business, which currently has more than 4,000 patients.