Technology (e.g. robotics, assistive technology, mHealth)

Symposium

(654131) NASA Space Medicine Spinoff Technology Uses Intelligent Therapeutic Vibration for Faster Recovery With Less Pain

Presenter(s)

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  Jeff Leismer, PhD

  Founder & CEO
  VibeTech
  Sheboygan, Wisconsin
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  Deb Jacoby, CTRS, CPRP, BC-AP

  Retired, Life Enrichment Director
  Rocky Knoll Healthcare Center
  Random Lake, Wisconsin

VibeTech (a NASA spinoff) is an applied R&D company that is bringing therapeutic vibration technology to the healthcare industry. Through strategic partnerships with academia, industry, trade organizations, and regulatory bodies, VibeTech is creating a pipeline of IP, clinical data, and standards to guide and grow the industry with support from commercialization partners.

VibeTech's technology solves the problem of atrophy, functional decline, and pain in people who are inactive due to age, injury, surgery, and disability. The company invented novel robotic rehabilitation and therapeutic vibration technology that accommodates all users, regardless of their physical or cognitive function. The technology is now restoring strength and function while reducing pain and falls in eldercare patients with the greatest needs.

Learning Objectives:

• Conceptualize how the environment of space creates a great test bed for technologies aimed at keeping older adults strong on Earth
• Understand the mechanical stimulation needs of the musculoskeletal system
• Articulate why mechanical vibration can be therapeutic if applied in the correct dosing
• Change the public’s perception that nursing homes are the place to send older adults because there is no hope to enabling the public to realize that nursing homes can be the place where loved ones’ needs are met and their lives are worth living because their strength and function can be restored, they can have a reduced fear of falling, and their pain can be alleviated, naturally without pain meds