Way down in the article they mention stroke, so have your research analysis person at your hospital start following this. Oh you don't have a research analysis person? They get all management fired; especially the board of directors.
Scientists plan expansion of cutting-edge wearable massage technology, Myovolt, used by Olympic athletes
Two research scientists are looking to raise several million dollars to expand production of their wearable massage technology used by members of the New Zealand Olympic gold-winning men’s eight rowing team.
The product, Myovolt, is used to boost the warm-up of muscles, reduce soreness after competitions and heavy workouts and to increase flexibility.
Electronic and wearable tech experts Steve Leftly and Dr Dianne Jones are the brains behind Myovolt, the vibration technology worn as a sports pad strapped to a part of the body.
Leftly said some members of the gold-medal winning men’s rowing eight and other members of the New Zealand Olympic team used Myovolt in their build-up to the Tokyo Olympics and for recovery after their events.
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Paralympian Cody Everson, co-captain of the Wheel Blacks, had been using their technology for a couple of years.
Now Leftly and Jones, who live in Christchurch, are turning their focus to the international rehabilitation market and therapeutic use of the technology in the home.
Myovolt had a consumer ready version for sale as well as other versions suitable for high-end athletes and medical or therapeutic uses.
They were bringing in a digital version of the Myovolt pad next year, enabling the person wearing it to receive information about their recovery as it was worn, and they were planning to create a lower back pain management device.
“We’ve got some pretty deep expertise in developing other wearable technologies, so we’re in a good position once we expand this business to bring other wearable therapeutic technologies under our umbrella within Myovolt,” Leftly said.
For many years they had worked on other wearable technology components for big companies like Adidas, NASA, Apple, the US Air Force and BAE.
One of their celebrated devices were the “hot pants” worn by the 2012 British Olympic cycling team. They were track pants with thermal threaded panels built into them, which they also supplied to the New Zealand and Australian Olympic cycling teams and to some US Olympic winter sport teams.
Leftly said they were at the cutting edge of the innovation, developing the first version of it in 2015 and then showing it in 2017 at the Consumer Electronics Show, a leading, annual global tech event.
“We created this space with wearable vibrations, so we’ve got the most advanced version of this technology out there.”
They were using a very specific range of frequencies to mimic what a medical device version of the technology did.
“We have basically taken that medical device and miniaturised it into this soft wearable strap.” The device produced a gentle hum massage.
“There are other companies that are starting to come in with wearable thermal products and others that have some vibration added into them. They don’t have any clinical backing or any clinical research behind them.”
They had to keep developing and improving to stay ahead of the game in a fast growing area.
They had been conducting clinical trials of the technology with medical and sports universities and research clinics in the United States for quite a wide range of uses outside of sports.
A couple of those were for musculoskeletal conditions like diabetic neuropathy, a type of nerve damage resulting from diabetes that can affect the mobility and function of legs and feet and other parts of the body, and for stroke rehabilitation.
Those studies were starting to be published showing good results and that was allowing them to get the technology into the high performance sports area much easier, Leftly said.
They had been testing their products for various conditions and knew they could enhance them and tailor them for a specific condition.
They were interested in producing easy to use in-home devices that could deliver that stimulation frequently, may be daily or more often as needed, in addition to say physiotherapy once a week at a clinic outside the home.
They planned two capital raisings for later this year and next year to invest in more R&D, expand the team and products for the rehabilitation of a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions and mobility problems.
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Jones said they had only scratched the potential of the technology.
“To take us to the next level in either the sports market or the wider one we are interested in, we need to expand our team, bring in some expertise, bring in investment and that’s what we are working on,” she said.
“We do feel our technology has got a lot of potential to provide a big impact and be a large company in this space. So we are ambitious, and we hope to get it there,” Leftly said.
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