Engineering the return of movement

Most occupational therapists work with the tools they are given. For twenty years, Dr. Nader Alirezaloo has worked with the tools he had to invent — because for children with cerebral palsy in Iran and the South Caucasus, the tools did not exist, or cost more than a family earns in a decade.

He began in the clinic: neurofeedback and QEEG in adolescents with ADHD, sensory integration in autism, motor planning in cerebral palsy. Along the way he noticed the thing that would define his career — the therapy was often sound, and the equipment was the bottleneck. A suspension system that let a child bear weight for the first time was manufactured in four countries on earth, and none of them were his.

So he built one. The Spider Cage and the Avizheh Space Suit, both patented in 2019, made Iran the fifth nation producing comprehensive suspension therapy systems. Then came the Reverse Walker, the Pro Dynamic Walker, and in 2025, ProWalk. Today the devices stand in more than a hundred centres across Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Oman.

He holds a PhD in Cognitive Linguistics, an MBA in Health Management and an MSc in Occupational Therapy — a combination that reads oddly on paper and makes perfect sense in a workshop, where a device must be clinically defensible, commercially viable, and comprehensible to a parent in ten seconds.

He is founder and CEO of AVIZEKA LLC (Baku) and the Noandishan Avijeh-e Zehn Institute (Tehran), founder of a non-governmental organisation licensed for disability sport, board member of Azerbaijan's first neuroscience laboratory, and the approved Special Olympics Iran representative for East Azerbaijan. He is currently building toward AI-assisted neurorehabilitation.

Biography, the twenty-year timeline & credentials