Deans' stroke musings: Halo Neuroscience raises $9M Series A for neurostimulation for athletics, stroke rehab

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Halo Neuroscience raises $9M Series A for neurostimulation for athletics, stroke rehab

I don't have enough smarts to tell if the research behind this is decent enough to suggest commercial use. So ask your doctor, Halo does point to some research on their website. Neuropriming seems to be a made up word for marketing purposes.
http://medcitynews.com/2016/02/365959/
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/ Feb 10, 2016 at 3:47 PM

Halo Neuroscience has launched a set of headphones and companion app to improve fitness performance through brain stimulation called Halo Sport, becoming the latest company to leap into the neurostimulation market.
More specifically, the company refers to its technology as neuropriming. It uses pulses of energy to accelerate strength and learning new skills.
It also raised a $9 million Series A round led by Lux Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Jazz Venture Partners, SoftTech Ventures and Xfund.
The company is interested in applying its brain stimulation technology in two areas –athletics and stroke rehabilitation.
For that reason it stands apart from other companies that have focused on areas like ADHD, concentration in general, and de-stressing. In the area of stroke rehabilitation it has partnered with University of San Francisco Medical School and Medical University of South Carolina, to help it validate this application.
On the athletics side, it partnered with the United States Ski & Snowboard Association, Invictus Crossfit and Michael Johnson Performance — an athletic training organization. Three Major League Baseball teams are also using the device.
It highlighted some of the results partners achieved with its neuropriming device in a company statement
The Olympic ski jumping team used its technology with the goal of improving propulsion for jumps. It saw a 13% gain in propulsion force.
The U.S. Military also used the technology to accelerate sniper training, according to Halo’s website.
The size of the neurostimulation device market is expected to rise to $8.79 billion by 2020, according to a report by Grand View Research.