SafeSock is a sensor-embedded foot sleeve that turns passive casts and boots into intelligent recovery platforms, tracking load, pressure, and moisture from the OR through home recovery.
96% of orthopedic surgeons say they cannot objectively verify weight-bearing adherence at home. The tools that exist, research-grade pressure insoles at $1,000+ per unit, are physically incompatible with casts, have no reimbursement pathway, and were built for gait labs, not clinical workflows.
Recognized across top international competitions and backed by leading accelerators and grants.
Built by two studentswith a dream.
SafeSock was born from a simple observation: millions of patients leave the operating room and disappear into a recovery black box. Raj and Akash Patel, two undergraduate students, set out to change that.
The dream is straightforward: every patient recovering from a lower-limb surgery deserves a clinician who can see exactly how they are healing, in real time, from anywhere. Not guesswork. Not a phone call two weeks later. Continuous, intelligent, actionable data.
From a dorm-room prototype to NIH I-Corps validation, Johns Hopkins research, and a pitch competition win at Baylor University, SafeSock is proving that the best solutions to hard clinical problems can come from people who refuse to accept the status quo.
We are partnering with health systems, orthopedic groups, and investors.