Another “ME/CFS moment” – a sign that things are looking up for ME/CFS and related diseases has occurred. It’s the emergence of the STAT earpiece and it just goes to show that we never know what things are being worked on right now that might make a real difference in our lives. The June 13th press release said it all: “Today, STAT Health emerges from stealth”. It certainly did.
This little earpiece (it is very small) isn’t about hearing better: it’s all about getting closer to a key aspect of ME/CFS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) – “blood flows to the head”. In fact, it was built directly to support people with long COVID, ME/CFS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and diseases of orthostatic intolerance.
Smaller than some invisible-in-the-ear-canal hearing aids, it contains advanced optical sensors, an accelerometer, a pressure sensor, temperature sensors, AI edge computing, multi-day battery life, and even a micro solar panel. It can be worn in the ear 24/7, including while sleeping and showering. Because it sits above the ear canal, it shouldn’t interfere with hearing devices, etc.
The earpiece auto-detects changes in position, heart rate, blood pressure, and blood flows to the head and uses that data to create an “Up Score” to track time spent upright (walking, sitting, standing) and a “Flow Score” to help people with pacing and recovery. It should be able to quickly chart if you have a sudden increase in heart rate (POTS) or decrease in blood pressure (orthostatic hypotension).
It’ll be able to produce readouts that you can share with your doctor. Over time, like the Apple Watch and Oura Ring, the earbud will be able to use apps to provide personalized coaching “to promote healthy lifestyle choices, such as informed hydration/salt intake, and paced rehab”.
We know that walking, standing, and even, at times, sitting upright can produce problems with brain blood flows in people with ME/CFS and similar diseases. What each of us can’t tell is when those blood flow problems begin to occur and how well they correlate with crashes. Because this device appears to be able to detect changes in blood flows before symptoms occur, it could be invaluable in pacing.
Tilt table testing at Johns Hopkins revealed that the device was far more effective at picking up blood flow abnormalities than clinical ECGs and blood pressure cuffs. It actually detected blood flow drops 2-12 minutes before people with OI fainted.
We recently saw that confocal laser endoscopy is able to pick up signs of inflammation and gut leaking hours before the symptoms show up. One wonders if this little tool might be able to pick up the earliest warnings that post-exertional malaise (PEM) is looming.
We’d all like to be upright as much as possible, but knowing when too much is too much can be difficult. Some days we can do more. Some days we can do less. Using real-time data to understand how much time upright can each of us get away with would be a huge blessing. Other than heart rate monitors, we have no good pacing tools that can tell us minute by minute what’s going on in our bodies. If this little earpiece could help us finetune that, that would a godsend.
It’s not going to cure ME/CFS, POTS, or long COVID, but improving quality of life, avoiding crashes, less pain – more pleasure – the possibilities are great. Let’s not forget the personal validation that should come with being able to see and show others that one’s symptoms track with reduced blood flows to the head.
What about testing supplements and drugs? Could we use it to assess the immediate impacts of food, supplements, and drugs? How about the impact of stress? Do upsets, worry and fear reduce blood flows to the head? Or do uplifting situations or calm states of mind improve them? Time will tell.
A Long-COVID Boost
Things like this device show up when the right person sees what’s missing and gets committed to fill in the gap. After cardiovascular issues were causing his father to have a problem fainting, Daniel Lee, a co-founder of the company, resolved to create a device that could warn his father if he was about to faint.
From there, some serendipity showed its face. Lee’s interest widened after he observed young women doing tilt-table testing for orthostatic intolerance at Johns Hopkins. Then when long COVID showed up, he realized that the pool of people who might be helped by the device had just “exploded”.
Lee, who had invented and helped bring to market the Bose Sleepbuds, which provided soothing sounds at night and during sleep (they have been discontinued) – already had a leg up on miniaturized devices.
This new device is light years more complex than the Sleepbud. Lee said it took him and his team 3 years to build the “most advanced wearable” in the world.
Its great grace is its location on the ear. Because the head doesn’t experience as wide a range of movement as does the wrist, Lee calls the ear – which, of course, lies close to the brain and the major arteries that feed it – a “biometric gold mine”. The problem until now has been making a device that’s small enough and comfortable enough to track movement, heart rate, blood flow, etc.
The Great Question – Blood Flows to the Brain, as Well?
While the potential for effectively managing pacing using real-time data is immense, the real game changer may be in the earpiece’s potential ability to quickly and easily assess blood flows to the brain. We know that ME/CFS is, at its heart, a disease of orthostatic intolerance; i.e. it’s a disease that impacts blood flows to the brain. We know that because using newer, more sensitive technology, the Visser-Van Campen-Rowe team revealed that everyone with ME/CFS, whether they have POTS or OH or neither – suffers from reduced blood flows to the brain when they are put upright.
THE GIST
- You just never know what’s going to pop up – what someone is working on right now that might make a difference in these diseases.
- The STAT Health earpiece isn’t about hearing better – it’s all about getting closer to a key aspect of ME/CFS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) – “blood flows to the head”. In fact, it was built directly to support people with long COVID, ME/CFS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and diseases of orthostatic intolerance.
- Smaller than some invisible-in-the-ear-canal hearing aids, it contains advanced optical sensors, an accelerometer, a pressure sensor, temperature sensors, AI edge computing, multi-day battery life, and even a micro solar panel. It can be worn in the ear 24/7, including while sleeping and showering. Because it sits above the ear canal, it shouldn’t interfere with hearing devices, etc.
- It auto-detects changes in position, heart rate, blood pressure, and blood flows to the head, and uses that data to create an “Up Score” to track time spent upright (walking, sitting, standing) and a “Flow Score” to help people with pacing and recovery. It’ll be able to produce readouts that you can share with your doctor and even provide personalized coaching.
- Because this device appears to be able to detect changes in blood flows to the head before symptoms occur, it could be invaluable in fine-tuning our pacing. Using real-time data to understand how much time upright can each of us get away with would be a huge blessing. Plus, one wonders if provocative testing of foods, supplements, and drugs could help us understand whether they are helping or hurting.
- Plus, there’s the personal validation that could come with being able to see and show others that one’s symptoms track with reduced blood flows to the head.
- While the potential for effectively managing pacing using real-time data is immense, the real game changer may be in the earpiece’s potential ability to quickly and easily assess blood flows to the brain as well as the head.
- Having a direct physical marker of something that’s happening to the most important organ in the body could be a game changer for the credibility of diseases like ME/CFS, long COVID, POTS, and even conceivably fibromyalgia. Testing is underway to see if the device is able to accurately measure blood flows to the brain. If it is, the device could prove invaluable in research studies and clinical trials.
- Lauren Stiles, the founder of Dysautonomia International wrote “this has the potential to improve the everyday lives of over 70 million people around the world living with various forms of dysautonomia. This is a win for patients!”
- The earpiece will not require a prescription. An iPhone app has been developed – an Android app has not yet been. Pre-orders will begin in the fall of 2023. The company is “currently targeting a $50/month subscription rate that it hopes will come down for longtime users. You can get on the email list for the launch invite by going to this page.
Despite its small size, the brain uses about 20% of the energy used by the body. If it can’t receive the oxygen and resources it needs, not only will brain fog going to be present, but it stands to reason that many other symptoms – fatigue, headache, pain, etc. – could affected as well. Imagine being able to cheaply and easily assess what’s happening to blood flows to the brain several days after an exercise study, or using it to assess the effectiveness of different treatment options. Time will tell just how far this miniaturized earpiece will go in helping us understand ME/CFS. POTS, long COVID, and others.
Peter Rowe – who has been immersed in orthostatic intolerance in ME/CFS and other diseases for decades – reported we should know soon.
“The Visser/van Campen team should soon be able to answer how well this in-ear device correlates with their more involved measures of cerebral blood flow. My sense is that if it correlates well with the Doppler measures, this device could be a huge advance for the field.“
Having a direct physical marker of something that’s happening to the most important organ in the body could be a game-changer for the credibility of diseases like ME/CFS, long COVID, POTS, and even conceivably fibromyalgia. Lauren Stiles wrote:
“As the founder of Dysautonomia International, the largest patient advocacy organization for people with autonomic nervous system disorders, and as a patient myself, I am so excited to see this technology take off. Having real-time data on blood flow to the head during real-life conditions has the potential to improve the everyday lives of over 70 million people around the world living with various forms of dysautonomia. This is a win for patients!”
The STAT earpiece will not require a prescription. An iPhone app has been developed – an Android has not yet. Pre-orders will begin in the fall of 2023. The company is “currently targeting a $50/month subscription rate that it hopes will come down for longtime users. You can get on the email list for the launch invite by going to this page.
Donation Drive Update
Health Rising’s “medical piggy” is pumped about a new way to validate ME/CFS, POTS, and long COVID.
I apologize for being so far behind in publishing the fundraising totals. All I can say is that the drive appears to be doing well and to give a big thanks to those who have supported Health Rising.
This blog represents a key theme for Health Rising to always be on the lookout for new possibilities that support all of us in living healthier and more fulfilling lives. The blog also represents the community nature of HR. As so many of HR’s blogs are, this one was triggered by a tip from a person with ME/CFS – Bob. So was the last blog published (Janet). Earlier this month, Jutta provided invaluable support for the Prusty blog and so it goes. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to HR in that way.
This is such an exciting possibility! I just wish it weren’t so expensive, forever. With three people in my family who would benefit from this, we would be looking at a monthly $150 (on top of all the costs for meds and supplements, sigh). I know they have to make money, but it’s a big long term commitment.
This is exciting!
I wonder what the minimum initial financial commitment will be?
3-6 months ($150-$300 USD) would be ideal to see if it works. A 12 month ($600 USD) commitment would be expensive for something that doesn’t work for you.
I have significant orthostatic intolerance, possibly orthostatic hypotension. I haven’t had a spect scan. But I passed out repeatedly within 4 minutes on my tilt table test. I’d like to better understand my blood flow to my brain with my symptoms.
It’s $1 to hold it and I was told it would be $50 month. I’m very eager to get it in hopes that it will help us all out.
The STAT website declined my payment if 1$.
Likely because credit card is in Canadian dollars.
note–GIST states pre-orders begin in fall of 2020
Mine too from the UK.
What a fantastic sounding device. So unusual to find such immediately helpful gear. Thanks again Cort for reporting these things as always.
Yes, it’s your Canadian location. It’s a U.S. thing right now.
All 3 of my Canadian cards were declined , too.
Hi Cort and all,
Cort, thank you very much for mentioning me as a source of information. My source of information on this exciting STAT Health technology is a friend and former co-worker, Linda, via LinkedIn.
Best regards, Bob
Well thank you Bob and thanks to Linda for passing the word around. The press release was almost ten days ago. I doubt I would have ever heard of this exciting possibility if not for Bob taking the time to email me 🙂
I’m very confused– it says ” Pre-orders will begin in the fall of 2020.” Is this date a typo?
Pre-orders 2020??? This confused me. I clicked on the link to the website and was leary of leaving my info for the $1 to hold it. I am going to my cardiologist next week and want to bring this info to him as I think this could be a great resource.
I was soo excited when I read about this possible game changer for my ME/CFS & Dysautonomia, My inability to form a coherent sentence & the immense confusion that comes upon standing are my biggest handicaps. I really hope this becomes a reality.
Pre-order 2020?? & $1 hold fee, never came up for me.
I’m in the UK and it declined my card too
It’s so strange. I don’t get an option for a card – I just get the email invite box.
Interesting. Once I’d submitted my email it asked me to complete a brief questionnaire which then lead to a payment box. I hope it’s not a scam.
Don’t worry. It’s not a scam. The developer is a biomedical engineer. His father had Dysautonomia and the son became interested in developing a device to help.
After my answers to 3 questions qualified me as a VIP candidate, I was directed to the Stripe payment page for $1 refundabke deposit. Sure hope it’s not a scam!
Hi Jill, Liz, Steve, and sunie,
The $1 payment link sounds suspicious.
I have not gone to the STAT Health web site because my Webroot computer virus protection labels it (on Google search) “Caution / This site may contain content that could effect your online security.”
I originally went to a web link about the device labeled “Trustworthy / It’s safe to go ahead” by Webroot. That link is:
https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/stat-health-launches-first-in-ear-wearable-to-measure-blood-flow/
I will try to contact someone at STAT Health about the suspicious “$1” web link and post whatever I find out.
If the “$1” site has your credit card information, you probably should monitor your credit card activity and statements closely. I hope that this does not become a hassle for you. My future follow-up post(s) will reply to this message.
Best wishes, Bob
Thank you for your response. I didn’t give my credit card, just the email, and I got an email about being on the list and the link brought me back to the $1. I did notice it was Fall 2023. I will check out the link you provided.
Thank you again!
Hi Jill and everyone,
Yesterday I submitted a question to the STAT Health “Partner With Us” web link, asking if they can confirm that their “Get Early Access” web link is secure. A short time ago I sent an email to a STAT Health team member asking the same question. (The only team member that I found an email address for.)
An automated “Partner With Us” submission “Thank you …” etc. window said that they would try to respond within 2 to 5 business days.
I’ll post again, hopefully with response information.
Best regards to all, Bob
Hi Bob,
Thank you again. This is such a great tool to have, hope it is all legit and works out!!
You are welcome Jill!
Wow! Cort, this article is incredibly on point and you’ve pieced together quite a number of detailed elements about our technology. Super impressed.
I did want to clarify that the website stat-health.com is supposed to take you to a 3 question survey after hitting “Reserve Launch Invite.” If you meet our inclusion criteria, you will be offered the opportunity to be a STAT VIP for $1 reservation deposit. This is a nominal amount to just show ourselves and our investors that people are actually willing to pay for what we’re building. We will be taking full pre-orders later this fall.
Another key detail is that we’re only taking reservations for US only at this time.
But yes, the $1 is not suspicious and that’s what’s supposed to show to everyone. I’m confused as to why Cort did not get an option. Cort, which browser were you using if you don’t mind me asking?
Daniel
Thanks Daniel – glad to hear it’s all on the up and up. Please put me and my partner (in Canada) down as very interested. We would have added our CC’s to the lot. I’m using Edge.
Do you mind entering into the Reserve Launch Invite box again, and see if you get to the “Take this 3 question survey to make sure STAT is right for you!” page? We had a bug earlier where some people on some browsers wouldn’t get to that page properly, however I just checked on my Windows 10 desktop computer on Edge, and it seems to be going through fine.
It worked. It took a little while for it to pop up. Maybe I just moved too quickly on from the page. 🙂
Excellent! I saw yours come in!
If you don’t mind adjusting your article’s *Warning, that’d be much appreciated.
Also, to be clear, we don’t have access to your CC and are not holding onto it. Stripe is a large 3rd party processor, and they rightfully don’t give us access to CC numbers. They process the $1 payment and act as a middle man.
Thanks for joining us on this journey!!
Daniel
Whoops! Forgot I’d done that – darn! It’s gone.
Looking forward to supporting your effort as best as I can (and not hobbling it)
Hi Cort, Daniel, and everyone,
Daniel, thanks very much to you and Milena of STAT Health for your quick responses and information, confirming that your web site and its links ARE SECURE. My post mentioning “suspicious” is unfounded. I apologize for my confusion.
Best wishes to you and all of the team at STAT Health, and good luck with your exciting new technology.
Best regards, Bob
Hi Daniel
I’m in Australia…do you have an idea yet as to when it may launch over here please? Many thanks Kim
Android user here. Is it beneficial for me to put down $1 deposit if an app is not available yet? Do you have an estimate of when an Android app will be available?
I notice you published some graphs with a short explanation from a POTS patient in your March 2024 newsletter, which was very interesting.
Any chance of doing the same for a CFS patient, or perhaps arranging for Cort to interview a CFS patient who has been testing the device?
Hi Sarahtee, we’ll certainly do so eventually! Been almost entirely focused on trying to get through production, so it’s just been our team member Shivani sharing her experiences so far. We’ll definitely highlight ME/CFS users in the future once we are out of the woods on fulfilling our initial shipments!
I would be curious if it could detect what is happening when someone talks to me.
I can listen to someone talk like in a movie or a show, but when someone talks to me, the cognitive processing involved while my brain actively tries to formulate a response- the ask-answer (even though I can’t answer -because I can’t talk) — hurts. It hurts a lot.
I would love to have a measurement of that.
It’s possible that the blood flow to your brain is dropping, and the device can show that, although it only takes measurements every few minutes. If the effect of attempting to have a conversation stays with you for some time afterwards, it could show that your blood flow has dropped and taken some time to recover.
There is a study showing that blood flow to the brain fell in subjects with POTS when they did a sustained mental task. It’s not much of a stretch to postulate that the same thing could happen in CFS, although it’s probably not the only factor.
I’m including a link to the study for completeness, but there’s no particular reason to read it:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/33280488/
A recent article on the immune system reported that for CFS/Fibro patients, the immune system had almost no response to (exercise) stress as compared to healthy controls. The article above makes me wonder if perhaps the deranged blood flows to the brain (and OI) that were detected may also reflect an inadequate (blood flow) response to stress – in concert with the inadequate immune response? When two major systems are both deregulated in so many CFS/Fibro (and perhaps Long Covid) cases, it seems unlikely that the underlying problems are unrelated and coincidental. Just a thought.
I am hoping that mass production may bring down the price on this device. Personally, whenever I exert myself I can hear the blood pumping in my ear (whoosh,whoosh – with each heartbeat) – as thought it is rushing through a restricted space (or constricted vein or artery?). This makes me think that this gadget may bring some valuable insights for me personally. I am hoping that now in 2023 (3 years after its release if it was in fact released in 2020?) – there is now some data on the effectiveness of the device in practice? (I sure hope that it wasn’t a scam to collect pre-order money for a device that did not live up to its promotional hype). Thx for the great summary Cort!
This sounds so interesting and promising.
Im curious though, if anyone else ever has thoughts that using these types of wearables, which track your every move and gather so much super-detailed data, could turn into some weird dystopian scenario where literally our every move is analyzed, reported and ultimately controlled by someone (think along the lines of ‘social credit score’ x1000). Perhaps thats a little too ‘Black Mirror’, but frankly Ive been concerned about the erosion of the very idea of personal privacy for the last 20 years. And if you’ve ever been through the disability application process, for example, you know there really is no such thing as privacy when you have to depend on the gov or an insurance co. Yes, I know our smartphones reveal more than we can even imagine about us already, but AI-powered wearables could take things to a whole new level.
Not to say I wouldn’t use this device, because I want so badly to have proof and to feel better and be more functional – I just wondered if anyone else thinks about this weird stuff, or is it just us old dinosaurs who remember when our private lives were actually somewhat private. 🙂
Anyway, thanks for the heads-up on this interesting technology!
You are not alone! I try to protect my privacy more than a lot of people I know, but I, too, would risk it for this device. Assuming it becomes available in Canada…
Dinosaur….I too have been very interested in personal privacy
An interesting note…up here in Canada, the police up here have been caught several times LISTENING and WATCHING through people’s microphones and the phones camera.
ARE WE REALLY FREE.hardly
Hi Cort,
you wrote “Peter Rowe – who has been immersed in orthostatic intolerance in ME/CFS and other diseases for decades – reported we should know soon.
“The Visser/van Campen team should soon be able to answer how well this in-ear device correlates with their more involved measures of cerebral blood flow. My sense is that if it correlates well with the Doppler measures, this device could be a huge advance for the field.“
Am I correct that it is now to soon for the device? That it must be first more validated?
It would be so tremendous good if it worked!!!
Wow! I’m strongly in favor of wearables for PWMEs after learning from Workwell Foundation about the importance of heart rate monitors (trying to keep heart rate below *anaerobic threshold) to avoid/lessen PEM.
This device certainly would be in that category if it’s validated. I am signed up.
*workwellfoundation.org has lots of resources, having conducted foundational, reproduced research in exercise physiology, but a quick guide: in the absence of a 2-day CPET, you can estimate your anaerobic threshold by adding 15BPM to your resting heart rate (as a starting point, possibly increasing it with experimentation).
Does anyone know an email /contact for the stat webpage. I’d like to know if the payment page is theirs but not working or whether it’s a scam
It’s strange! The email I got said thanks for registering and that was it.
Anyone here have a contact/email for stat. I’d like to check with them that the payment website is set up by them but not working and reassurance it’s not a fraud/scam.
Hi Victoria,
The payment website that is found after a 3 question survey on http://www.stat-health.com is a legit and not fraud/scam.
We don’t yet have a customer service email set up (but should this week!). In the meantime, we’re fielding customer service questions through our Facebook page (you can message us there): facebook.com/statwearable
Daniel from STAT Health
Great idea for a Device RUINED by the monthly charging system
It should be a one of purchase only price. Pretty much just makes it a clinic only item,so limits the possible sales theyd get by one off purchase
Thou hopefully we will see Ali express versions within months 😛
Haha had the same thought. sure the Ali express version would be just a random number generator.
I have to take hefty doses of a prescription stimulant to stay awake due to Idiopathic Hypersomnia. Wondering if that would skew the results too much?
It sounds like a fantastic tool but personally, I’d not be comfortable having a wireless frequency being emitted up against my head. I went deep into the research of Dr. Martin Pall a few years ago and will be conscious of his warnings about such radiations for the rest of my life. Neurosurgeon Jack Kruse also warns that putting any wireless device against your head is a bad idea.
What about the chance it could be used by some to reduce credibility towards these same conditions? Do we know that low blood flow or hypoperfusion is reflected the same in all relevant areas of the brain?
No need to worry about low blood flows to one or the other part of the brain. The low blood flows being measure are to the brain as a whole.
This device, Dr Novak’s research, and the Visser-van Campen-Rowe research all measure at different artery sites. In one study, Visser et al rotated the site. I think this means that any of the suitable artery sites can be used and give comparable results to measure overall blood flow to the brain.
For a closer look at which parts of the brain are missing out, a SPECT scan or other emerging brain scan technology that shows ceebral perfusion would be needed, but these are all done lying down.
Daniel from STAT here, the company behind this device.
Thank you Cort for this excellent summary of what we’re doing! Distilled down all the key parts of what we’re up to and made it more understandable!
Just wanted to chime in that the $1 is legitimate, as a way for us to gauge genuine interest vs curiosity!
Daniel
Thanks Daniel! Good luck with the device. Looking forward to it. 🙂
Hi Cort, Daniel, and everyone,
Daniel, thanks very much to you and Milena of STAT Health for your quick responses and information, confirming that your web site and its links ARE SECURE. My post mentioning “suspicious” is unfounded. I apologize for my confusion.
Best wishes to you and all of the team at STAT Health, and good luck with your exciting new technology.
Best regards, Bob
The start-up producing Stat launched a massive PR outreach on June 13th. They had already raised $5 million in seed funding.
Here is the story on CNBC:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/13/stat-health-in-ear-wearable-promises-it-can-predict-fainting.html
This reminds me of those startups on Shark Tank. Some of the products are good, but many fall by the wayside.
Yes, and just when the company thinks they have the market cornered, a Chinese knockoff will be produced and sold for a fraction of the cost.
It’s a tough time to be in business….no wonder Daniel is treading cautiously
Hi Cort, Daniel, and everyone,
Daniel, thanks very much to you and Milena of STAT Health for your quick responses and information, confirming that your web site and its links ARE SECURE. My post mentioning “suspicious” is unfounded. I apologize for my confusion.
Best wishes to you and all of the team at STAT Health, and good luck with your exciting new technology.
Best regards, Bob
I think it’s important for prospective users to know that this isn’t registered as a medical device. That doesn’t mean it won’t be useful, but will limit its applications and recognition of its data in certain contexts.
I wish the company was planning a medical version.
I just signed up. Gave the $1 reserved using US card. No problems.
By the way, in case anyone is wondering how the STAT device measures blood flow, it uses photoplethysmography.
The other technology that can measure blood flow velocity to the head is called transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound, as was mentioned by Dr Rowe in the article.
TCD ultrasound requires wearing a small headset connected by wires to a computer. It is becoming available here and there in hospitals and autonomic labs. Not as good as having a constant wearable monitor, but probably covered by your insurance or government healthcare.
Here’s one in Australia, for instance:
https://www.austin.org.au/diagnosing-brain-spinal-cord-nerve-muscle-disorders/for-health-professionals/
It’s stated to be used in investigating “cerebrovascular disturbances”. Your doctor wouldn’t even have to mention CFS or dysautonomia or Long COVID if that might cause an imprediment. They could say the test would be to investigate orthostatic intolerance and presyncope, for instance.
A bit more info on this page about the TCD in an Australian hospital:
https://www.austin.org.au/diagnosing-brain-spinal-cord-nerve-muscle-disorders/for-patients/
By the way, another company could presumably use the technology of photoplethysmography to make a medical device version.
And one more thing – the company has stated that it plans to make a medical version in the future. Yay!
The company is planning preliminary interactions with the FDA in 2025 to get the ball rolling on the medical version. Excellent news.
A research version is available now. Interested scientists should contact the company for further information.
The company has announced a financial assistance program:
https://www.stat-health.com/financial-assistance