ExploreIris™ · For manual therapy practitioners, physiotherapists and osteopaths

See more than the symptom.
Get to know the person behind it.

A structured functional profile built without knowing where it hurts — produced independently of your examination, and compared with it afterwards.

It adds another perspective.
It does not tell you what to examine or how to treat.

Evaluate It Using Your Own Cases See the Practitioner View

ExploreIris™ is not intended to diagnose, treat, monitor, predict or prevent disease. The decision to treat, and the treatment itself, remain entirely yours.

See the person, not only the symptom

A painful shoulder may be only one part of the picture.

A patient comes to you because of a painful shoulder, a stiff neck or a lower back that will not settle.
But people do not function as separate body parts.

Your own examination remains primary. The profile is built without any knowledge of the complaint — so it sometimes points somewhere other than the painful area. That is the part you could not have found by examining where it hurts.

The value is in the comparison — not in replacing your professional judgement.

And the report gives you something concrete to discuss together — beyond the complaint that brought the patient in.

Assess the patient independentlyReview the profile separatelyThen compare the two

You already find areas of tension, restriction and altered tissue response through your own examination — by hand, in the room, with the patient in front of you.

What the profile gives you is an independent regional reference you can compare with what you find yourself — produced without knowing the patient, the complaint or what you will find.

Two independent sources, reviewed side by side. Agreement and disagreement are both informative when you are judging whether the profile adds anything to your practice.

An independent reference.
Not something to follow.

The Practitioner View

A professional layer, not an instruction.

The Practitioner View presents regions that stand out more strongly within the model-derived profile, in a format designed for professional review.

It can be compared with your own findings and professional knowledge.
The client receives a short, non-technical summary; you receive the professional layer.

It does not replace examination, rank clinical priorities or prescribe treatment.

Model-derived patterns

Regions that stand out more strongly within the model-derived profile, across reference levels and with side-to-side differences noted.
Whether a region is relevant in a given case is a question for your own examination, not something the profile establishes.

Regional context

Where a region has a broader functional context within the model, this is set out for professional correlation — with the limits of that correlation stated alongside it.

Explanatory layer

Background written for qualified professionals, explaining how the model organises what it describes.
Not present in the client version.

Stated limits

Each observation is accompanied by clear limits on what it does and does not establish.
Red flags are stated explicitly.

From personal profile to professional context

The Practitioner View translates the same individual profile into regional reference levels and professional context.

The client receives the personal report.
The practitioner receives an additional professional layer for independent review.

What stands out

Which regions are more pronounced within the profile, and on which side.

How strongly

A level indicating how clearly the region stands out within the model.

Professional context

What the region covers, written for a trained audience — with the limits stated alongside.

ExploreIris Professional Annex — sample page, watermarked

The full report covers the complete hierarchy of relevant regions — not only the section shown here.

The Practitioner View does not replace examination, rank clinical priorities or prescribe treatment. Where a pattern deserves further attention, it should be assessed through standard medical diagnostics.

Two independent sources

An independent profile you can compare with your own assessment.

Your assessment is made without any knowledge of the profile. The profile is produced without any knowledge of the case.
Neither informs the other.

What you gain is the ability to place two independently obtained descriptions side by side and see where they agree and where they do not.

1 · Assess

Assess the patient as you normally would

2 · Review

Review the ExploreIris™ profile separately

3 · Compare

Then compare the two independent sources of information

Your professional assessment

History, examination, palpation, testing and your own clinical reasoning.
Independently obtained and primary.

ExploreIris™ Practitioner View

Model-derived patterns from standardised iris images, produced without access to the case.
Independently obtained and supplementary.

Agreement and disagreement are both informative when evaluating the method.

The ExploreIris™ output is not a treatment instruction and does not determine what you examine or how you work.

Where it comes from

Years of work in this exact field.

This is not a technology looking for an application.
It grew out of long-term collaboration with the late Dr Andrzej Rakowski, whose work shaped how these reference points are understood.

In 2017 we presented our observations at the Polish Society for Holistic Manual Therapy: Metameric reflex responses of the body following point stimulation: observations and personal experience.

The model grew out of long-term clinical observation and work with manual therapy practitioners. In a blinded study run in 2011–2012, regional iris-image measurements differed between sectors corresponding to strongly reactive treatment points and the remaining sectors.

Fifty-seven patients, analysed under blinded conditions, with an independently commissioned statistical analysis. Read about the research background →

That earlier work informed how the current model was developed, so it is not presented as validation of it. Independent replication with a different practitioner is the step we are taking now, and practitioners who wish to take part are welcome. See the research programme →

Why continuity matters

Because feeling known changes
the experience of care.

Patients remember when a practitioner sees the person, not only the complaint.

ExploreIris™ gives practitioner and patient a shared, visual point of reference for a more individual conversation.

Experienced practitioners build this over years.
The profile gives you an individual reference you and the patient can return to, from the first visit rather than the tenth.

For the patient

That their case is not handled generically.
That someone is looking further than the pain they came in with.
That successive visits are part of one story rather than a series of separate interventions.

For you

An additional, individual reference point alongside what the patient brings today — something to compare with your own findings, and to return to at the next visit.

ExploreIris™ does not replace the therapeutic relationship.
It may help deepen it.

Don’t take our word for it

Try it on a case you already know.

Evaluate ExploreIris™ using cases you already know.

We analyse the standardised iris images without access to the associated health documentation.
The profile is locked before the reference information is reviewed.
You can then compare the model-derived observations with your own independently obtained professional assessment.

A limited number of practitioners can receive a Practitioner View for one of their own cases at no cost, with no commercial obligation.
Agreement and disagreement are both useful for evaluating the method — an honest negative opinion is as valuable to us as a favourable one.

You choose the caseWe work without the documentationProfile locked before anything is disclosedYou compare with your own assessment

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Practicalities

No specialist imaging equipment.

Capture

A camera with macro capability or a modern smartphone.
The approach has been tested across multiple current smartphone models.
The analysis uses relative measurements referenced within the image, so results do not depend on overall image brightness.

In the room

Designed to fit within a professional workflow.
No blood sampling, no radiation, no physical contact.

Turnaround

Returned within 24 hours of successful image-quality verification, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.

Images are pseudonymized under the agreed protocol and submitted through the secure channel — never by e-mail.
Data-protection documentation is provided before any patient data is transferred. See how data is handled →

Who you would be working with

Practitioners, not a software company.

Andrzej Święcicki

Founder · Physician

Co-author of the 1996 publication on the measurement of luminance of light reflected from the human iris.
More than three decades of clinical observation and functional analysis in private practice, including long-term collaboration with Dr Andrzej Rakowski.

Elżbieta Tokarska

Head of Clinical Practice & Client Experience · BSc Physiotherapy

A physiotherapist working in the practice since 2013, with a particular focus on the interaction between psychological load and physical function.
Co-author of the 2017 presentation on reflex responses to point stimulation.

Get in touch

No belief required.
Just your hands.

Start a conversation

Whether you would like a Practitioner View for one of your cases, more detail on what it contains, or a conversation about taking part in the replication study — write to us and we will reply personally.

Would you rather discuss it first? Get in touch and we’ll arrange a conversation.

See more than the symptom.Get to know the person behind it.