by Unber Shafiq | December 1, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Medical
SpineX, a bioelectric MedTech company, has released the findings of its first human trial of a non-invasive spinal electrical neuromodulation device — Spinal Cord Innovation in Pediatrics (SCiP) — for the treatment of children with cerebral palsy. The...
by William McCleary | November 25, 2022 | Enabling Tech
It acts like a brain and feels like skin. And unlike smartwatches, this flexible device doesn’t need to send the data that it collects to another device for analysis. Instead, this recently developed AI chip from researchers at the University of Chicago’s...
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by William McCleary | November 23, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Medical
While they’ve long been the stuff of sci-fi flicks — from Aliens and Avatar to Iron Man and Robocop, just to name a few — exoskeletons are increasingly prevalent in the real world. And they serve especially well in two areas: strokes and aging. According to the...
by William McCleary | November 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
What can 3D imaging tell us about the health of the human body? Lots. The motion capture of one’s gait has the potential to serve as a digital biomarker that identifies disease progression and rehabilitation outcomes, while 3D tracking can identify problematic...
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by Unber Shafiq | November 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
A stroke can cause irreversible brain damage, long-term disability, and even death. Neuralert Technologies, a spin-out from the University of Pennsylvania, has recently announced that they have reached Minimum Viable Product (MVP) level for their compact, lightweight,...
by William McCleary | November 11, 2022 | Enabling Tech
If you’ve ever had a brain scan, or even just seen one on TV, you probably know that it’s kind of a big deal. Measuring brain activity usually involves functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) — that’s when the patient goes into the big humming...
