Portsmouth, VA - MYMIC LLC continues to expand its capabilities in the area of medical modeling and simulation applications. Partnered with Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School, MYMIC will develop, under an SBIR Phase I contract, from the US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Fort Detrick, MD, a state-of-the-art, game-based clinical tool for the rehabilitation of patients suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) related deficits in cognitive and motor skills. They will develop a tool called The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Delivery System (BIRDS), to augment existing TBI rehabilitation programs by providing remote patient therapy. BIRDS will provide a more effective and standardized method of assessing a TBI patient’s rehabilitation progress. The BIRDS tool will also provide clinicians the ability to monitor and adjust patient therapy remotely thereby optimizing office time with the patient. BIRDS will be designed for both the XBOX360 or Microsoft Zune game consoles leveraging commercially available game technology to deliver a cost-effective, easily distributed solution.

MYMIC LLC, “The Architects of Change”, is a high-technology, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, founded in 2001 by Dr. Thomas W. Mastaglio and Mr. William L. Younger Jr., to support military training, experimentation, concept development, and requirements analyses. MYMIC is an experienced provider of research and analysis support and an industry expert in identifying operational requirements, conducting assessments, and understanding the impact of simulations and the Contemporary Operational Environment (COE) on organizational requirements. MYMIC focuses on the practical application of analysis, simulation and visualization tools and technologies to support commercial and government client decision-making, and education and training programs. MYMIC also provides on-site engineering and technical services to support studies and analyses and experimentation.