{"id":19478,"date":"2025-07-18T17:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19478\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T17:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:34:04","slug":"a-minnesota-medtech-startup-with-gaming-roots-uses-fda-cleared-ai-to-treat-essential-tremor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19478\/","title":{"rendered":"A Minnesota medtech startup with gaming roots uses FDA-cleared AI to treat essential tremor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yang considered creating a surgically implanted device or one that works in tandem with medication. After sensing anxiety from a patient\u2019s family prior to surgery, he pivoted to try to create a device that was as noninvasive as possible, landing on the no-incision-necessary design of the Felix.<\/p>\n

To use the device, a patient straps on a daily disposable sensor to their wrist after taking a quick digital measurement. Then, they cover the device with the battery pack. <\/p>\n

The stimulation needed to treat tremors varies from moment to moment. The device streams data sensed in the patient\u2019s tremor to the digital cloud via a cell phone app, Yang said. That allows AI to analyze the tremor and adjust stimulation parameters in real time. <\/p>\n

The device delivers mild electric stimulation through several peripheral nerves stretching from the hand to the central nervous system. This stimulation changes the activities in a patient\u2019s sensory and neural pathways to provide tremor relief. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really a communication channel between your nervous system and the artificial intelligence,\u201d Yang said, \u201cand they\u2019re together trying to reduce the tremor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A demonstration of a fitting of the Felix wristband for treating tremors uses a phone to measure the points that the wristband needs to properly align with nerves. (Ren\u00e9e Jones Schneider\/The Minnesota Star Tribune)<\/p>\n

Depending on the level of the stimulation, some patients may feel a little tingling or numbness, said Dr. Rajesh Pahwa, a University of Kansas Medical Center professor who was an investigator on the study. Compared to another device on a market, which stimulates for about 40 minutes and provides a few hours of relief, patients wear the Felix much longer, Pahwa said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yang considered creating a surgically implanted device or one that works in tandem with medication. After sensing anxiety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-19478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}