New limit in health innovation

Neurological disease can be devastating. A disease affecting the brain is in the brain, which occurs when blood supply to the brain in blockage and often results in damage to speech, engine or memory. This affects over 6 million in the SH.BA

Can the rhythm from playing a guitar make a change in stroke?

As a student in music therapy at the University of Maine, Brian Harris was intrigued with the ability of rhythm and music to change the brain. He wanted to make a difference for the patients he saw. He was watching a session with a boy associated with wheelchairs with neurological deficiencies, including the inability to speak and cognitive damage. But within minutes from the beginning of the musical therapy session, the child began to improve. Family members who were present were torn. ‘It was a deep moment to testify,’ says Brian, who realized that his mission to understand how it happened and the degree to help other patients.

He continued to start his first program to handle stroke and brain injury with musical intervention at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a Harvard Medical Hospital. Using rhythmic hearing stimulation (RAS), he was able to help patients regenerate how to walk rapidly and symmetry. He would often work alongside the physical therapist with his guitar. “Time and time again. Ras was dramatically improved (patients), exceeding their recovery from other treatment options.”

The request for intervention became higher, inside the hospital, as well as for ambulance with many family members asking Brian Care after dismissal. With goals to improve access to this treatment for many other patients, he joined Owen McCarthy to find a way to deliver this digitally.

Insandem Innandem brings together a sophisticated software platform, hardware controllers, sensor and a headset that gives Ras through your favorite user music. With engagement and years of hard work, it is now available through a recipe for those with impaired walking. The founders hope to enable access to all patients, especially 3.5 million chronic shock survivors living with this disability and were recently able to get a unique CMS billing code. Medrhythms has recently partned with the Lovell government services to support veterans and military staff.

Using sound data to innovate medical means:

Sound and rhythm have a great potential in health care. Another company to understand this is Health pen. Using sound and photopletylism (PPG) in the form of a wireless and digital stethoscope for clinics, and turning this data into young digital biomarkers, the hope is to affect early and accurate diagnosis.

The initial product, Keikku, is a software and hardware integration into a hand hearing device, similar to a stethoscope, which uses it to standardize the interpretation of auscultation sounds, providing an important overview of diagnosis. Some examples of use cases include asthma irritations in children, COPD in adults and monitoring of outpatient heart failure. In addition, this device can record sound data as well as integrate them into EHR for easy access to it later. ‘This allows the data to be divided and transmitted to teams for cooperative decision -making during rounds or with consultants “Dr Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriadis MD, CEO in Health Pencil.” Often, complex lungs and cardiac cases need numerous specialists to get involved in care and this opportunity can help sharing essential information. “

With the potential of adding distance care for patients as well as telehealth, co -founders are particularly excited to influence the inequalities that currently exist, especially in rural areas. “Keikku has the potential to overcome the gaps in care, enabling health care providers to reach patients in undeserved areas,” said Dr Diana Van Stjn, leading medical officer at Health Lapsi. “We hope not only to advance medical technology, but to improve equality in the health care approach.”

Sound innovation that affects the progression of brain disease

Healthy technology can certainly make a change in health, but can it help reduce the progression of the disease? Our brain releases gamma waves at a certain rhythm and frequency. Recent research has shown that the rhythm of gamma waves in our brain can have a significant impact on many brain functions, including recognition, memory and executive function. Interesting latest research has found that in neurodegenerative diseases, this frequency has been terminated. Professors of Mit Ed Boyden and Li-Huei Tsai, in pre-clinical research, found that if the gamma waves through non-invasive stimulation, they returned to the initial frequency, it could slow down the process in some brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Soon in the study of overture, and the results look hopeful. In this study, patients on the intervention arm suffered 69% slowdown in brain volume loss (MRI) and 77% Functional decline (ADCS-ADL) compared to the control group, with no limited side effects of treatment.

Because treatment can be delivered at home, spectrum^TmAn audiovisual stimulation that combines sound and easy therapy can allow access to vulnerable populations such as those who can live away from academic centers. By restoring gamma rhythms, this technology helps the brain to activate genes and proteins that help maintain its structure and function. Data tests are also included so that each device is personalized for the patient based on the unique individual brain response. Targeting the possibility of reaching, the device is easy to use at home with an intuitive headset to help usability.

“This technology (spectris ™) uses physics to generate gamma rhythms of brain essential for normal brain health and potentially restore brain functions and structures affected by aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s,” said Ralph Kern, MD MHSC , Cognito’s medical chief. “Our goal is to fulfill the promise to provide safe, effective and cost -effective home therapy that improves the lives of patients and their families.”

As we move forward to help patients get the best possible health, new technologies that use sound and rhythm remain a major part of this limit.