{"id":141518,"date":"2025-09-13T17:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141518\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:50:28","slug":"innovative-french-apps-tackle-chronic-pain-and-enhance-healthy-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141518\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative French apps tackle chronic pain and enhance healthy ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    FriLi will help with\u00a0chronic pain and a health monitoring<\/p>\n<p>\n        App&#8217;s creators are looking for users to help test it before a fuller version launches in 2026<br \/>\n        FriLi\n    <\/p>\n<p>An app for chronic pain and a health monitoring system are among offerings proposed by two French start-ups in the healthy ageing field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first, called FriLi, is the brainchild of Lili Road-Gheysens, a Lille University English lecturer, art therapist and a patient-expert: a sufferer recognised as an expert in their condition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connexionfrance.com\/news\/living-longer-in-france-in-good-health-conference-report\/738355?articleToken=69d4e94c3b9d51ca774cb81696efa69f3ddbefaa9c5bafc0d50a590ce4ada608\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Genii Longevity<\/a> conference, she called chronic pain \u201cone of the hidden barriers to healthy longevity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is defined as pain lasting more than three months or which keeps coming back, and which does not always have a readily identified cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a tremendous impact on patients,\u201d she said. \u201cIt triggers higher mortality rates, reduced ability at work and impaired quality of life. It also has an impact on society as a whole as it generates extra costs for the healthcare system and our society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne in five people worldwide suffers from chronic pain, but that\u2019s not the worst part: 70% think their care is not appropriate or adequate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said in France only 3% of sufferers have access to a <a href=\"https:\/\/sante.gouv.fr\/soins-et-maladies\/prises-en-charge-specialisees\/douleur\/article\/les-structures-specialisees-douleur-chronique-sdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">centre dedicated to chronic pain management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Launching this month, her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/friliapp.com\/en\/home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">app<\/a> incorporates ideas from her book, published in English this month: Breaking Free from Chronic Pain. FriLi is looking for users to help test the initial version before a \u201cfuller\u201d version launches in spring 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI want to create a hub for chronic pain, where everything you read is validated by neuroscience, because if you just go to Dr Google, it\u2019s not always right,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The app will offer online workshops on art therapy or techniques such as pain reprocessing therapy or somatic tracking. It will also give access to a community of other sufferers and, in time, may be tailored to a user\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>Another start-up, Sunwaves Medtech in Nice, will have a central platform run by AI and manged by a team of doctors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Users will be given health monitoring sensors to use at home, or they may link up their own devices, such as connected watches or rings.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Philippe Dedrie told The Connexion: \u201cUsers have an online appointment with a doctor to discuss their medical history, assisted by AI. Then we follow them day-to-day and send information about wellbeing and their environment. All the medical data is given to their doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sunwaves is launching a version for elderly or disabled people and those with long-term health conditions, called Allo-DoCs, in France this month.<\/p>\n<p>Users can contact a doctor at any time for advice. If the system picks up on medical emergencies, its doctors attempt to contact the user and\/or call the emergency services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re capable now, with several connected devices, of detecting a heart attack, stroke or risk of a fall in advance,\u201d Mr Dedrie said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur tests found we can predict a heart attack three weeks before, 70% of the time. That means we can inform the doctor, who can decide what must be done, or send the person to the right hospital, at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A version for optimising longevity is to be trialled in the US before it is made available in France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re going to help doctors working in the field of longevity to get to know each patient better,\u201d Mr Dedrie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s one thing to take action to improve cardiac activity, for example: we can use new protocols to strengthen and rejuvenate the heart. But nobody can see what&#8217;s going on next door, ie. how all the organs work together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re able to say: \u2018You&#8217;re acting on the heart, and this is what the treatment does for the heart, but here is what it does for kidney function, breathing, the quality of sleep, etc.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FriLi will help with\u00a0chronic pain and a health monitoring App&#8217;s creators are looking for users to help test&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-141518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}