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SWORD Health

Updated: 07/2021

SWORD Health

Portugal / Porto , Portugal

Website

Series C 06/2021

Pitch

Replacing face-to-face human physiotherapy, SWORD, the world’s fastest-growing musculoskeletal medtech, enables treatment anywhere and anytime, at greater intensity and lower costs – democratizing therapy,

Why

Rising demand

Increasingly aging populations worldwide mean there has never been more demand for physiotherapy services.

Costly, labor-intensive treatment

Performed only by professional therapists, physiotherapy is highly time- and labor-consuming and expensive.

Accountability, communication and recordkeeping

Physiotherapy records aren’t automatically recorded and are difficult to retrieve, communicate between clinics.

Market

€459.8bn

Forecast global telemedicine market size by 2030, up from 49.9m in 2019 (Statista).

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