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Gravity Takes Boccia By Storm

The Birth of Gravity A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Gravity ™ was born (read earlier this year, about 6 months ago). Therafin has been building and innovating industry-shattering products for nearly 50 years, so naturally an adaptive sport like Boccia beckoned our skillful craft, and we heeded its mighty call.   Boccia is a sport that requires intense concentration, highly skilled precision– developed from hours of hard work and exhausting practice– and of course, the right Boccia [...]

November 2, 2017 By Read more...
The Innovation Sprout of Ingenius

Living Innovation

“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.” -E.E. Cummings No.   No is a powerful word; Maybe one of the most powerful.  Yes, on the other hand, is permissive with unpredictable results and often entails risk.   When an idea, or thought or glimmer of a thought is met with “No”, from those with the authority to stop any progress, innovation is killed.  Never has an idea that died become a tangible reality.  Innovation is like life, it must be [...]

August 28, 2017 By Read more...
Boccia Ball Toss

What Is Boccia And How Do I Play

Pictured is a man tossing a red Boccia ball toward the white Jack ball on the Boccia Court. What Is Boccia? Boccia is a court ball disabled sport which has been adapted from the Italian field sport of “Bocce”. Though you may have just been introduced to this sport for the first time, this highly strategic sport has been contested in the Paralympics since 1984, and is currently practiced by over 50 countries. The sport of Boccia is primarily played on [...]

August 22, 2017 By Read more...
Therafin Innovation's Homemade Pasta Design Process

Homemade Pasta: Therafin Innovation’s Design Process

We love pasta. We love to design things, and I love metaphors.   But pasta as a metaphor for the design process and innovation??  Common is the phrase about throwing spaghetti against the wall to see if it’s done and thus sticks; so maybe the metaphor is germane.   A design process, like spaghetti, ultimately must determine if the design is done and indeed if it “sticks”.   So on goes a kettle of water and we’ll start cooking. At Therafin we follow [...]

August 21, 2017 By Read more...
Burdock the Unicorn

Journal of a Unicorn, #1

Journal Entry 7.15.17 It’s a dreary and awful night. The clouds are mushroom tapestries overhead my uneasy galloping in the electric night. The wind is racing steadily through the trees around me. With each step I fear a branch might collapse or a tree hinder the narrowing path. One strike of lightning. Two strikes of lightning. Thunder surrounds me. I see a break in the squall many miles ahead, but my mind swims in a disturbing hypothetical. What if… But I can’t think this way. [...]

August 8, 2017 By Read more...

Therafin’s Premium Boccia Ramp

Therafin + Innovation = ? In 2018, Therafin celebrates its fifty-year anniversary, a milestone that is indicative of the countless hours of life and labor that has been poured into a progressive and constantly changing rehabilitation industry. Because of Therafin’s history of highly professional designs and product manufacturing in a niche market, we decided to take our skills into the adaptive sports market to innovate new and improved industry favorites, like Boccia ramps. It was through this fun venture that Therafin Innovation™ [...]

August 2, 2017 By Read more...