Entrepreneur Ifat Shterenberg Toledano was 30 weeks into her fourth pregnancy when she started feeling sudden excruciating pain in her pelvis and lower back. “Basically, I became disabled,” she tells ISRAEL21c.
Her horrifying medical ordeal resulted in Shterenberg Toledano establishing Treat Me, a unique platform combining Western medicine, complementary therapies and cutting-edge research.
Designed for practitioners, the platform leverages research-driven data and AI to personalize each treatment, improve patient outcomes and streamline care.
It incorporates all integrative care methods, from more traditional treatments such as physiotherapy, to holistic ones such as Chinese medicine, naturopathy, reflexology and more.
When Shterenberg Toledano first started feeling pain in October 2019, doctors initially dismissed the symptoms as her body simply being strained from the pregnancy. But after giving birth, the pain worsened to the point where she could no longer stand.
After endless medical tests and doctor visits, Shterenberg Toledano was finally given an MRI that revealed multiple fractures in her pelvis. “The pelvis essentially fell apart; there was swelling all over,” she recalls.
Shterenberg Toledano decided to contact a physiotherapist from Belgium, a world-renowned specialist in similar types of injuries, who advised her “to stay in the water for 18 months,” telling her that using a wheelchair would atrophy her muscles and leave her permanently disabled.
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Treat Me’s VP of R&D Asaf Corem is a Technion alumnus.
