Yang has planned to create a surgical implanted device or that operates in tandem with drugs. After detecting the anxiety of a patient’s family before surgery, he pivoted to try to create a device as non -invasive as possible, landing on the design without incision of the Felix.
To use the appliance, a batter with a daily disposable sensor at their wrist after taking a quick digital measure. Then they cover the device with the battery.
The stimulation necessary to treat tremors varies from time to time. The device diffuses data detected in the patient’s patient tremor via a mobile phone application, Yang said. This allows AI to analyze the tremor and adjust the stimulation parameters in real time.
The device offers a light Electrical stimulation through several peripheral nerves extending from the hand to the central nervous system. This stimulation modifies activities in the sensory and neuronal ways of a patient to provide relief of the tremors.
“It is really a communication channel between your nervous system and artificial intelligence,” said Yang, “and they are trying to reduce the tremor together.”
A demonstration of an assembly of the Felix bracelet to process the tremors uses a phone to measure the points that the bracelet needs to align with the nerves. (Renée Jones Schneider / The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Depending on the level of stimulation, some patients may feel a little tingling or numbness, said Dr. Rajesh Pahwa, a professor at the study of the University of Kansas Medical Center who was investigating. Compared to another device on a market, which stimulates around 40 minutes and offers a few hours of relief, patients wear the Felix much longer, said Pahwa.
