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Title
New protocols that stimulate the spinal cord
Reference
TOIT20210621001
Last update
Mon, Jun, 28, 2021
Deadline
Sun, Jun, 26, 2022
Abstract
A research group based in Italy has developed new stimulating protocols that stimulate the spinal cord in the perspective to allow persons with a spinal injury to restore motor and autonomic functions by using a more specific and effective impulse. They are looking for financial and/or joint venture agreement.
Description
The laboratory is composed of neuro-physiologists and neuro-scientists who study the mechanisms at the base of spinal cord injury and other neuro-motor disorders through the development and analysis of innovative technologies.
The laboratory specifically identified stimulating protocols that stimulate the spinal cord in the perspective to allow persons with a spinal injury to restore motor and autonomic functions by using a more specific and effective impulse.
The unmet need is to recover motor control and the approach of the laboratory in this field is completely new: multiple and highly varying electric input to different sites of the injured spinal cord.
In the majority of spinal cord injuries, when the brain sends a command of movement, the physiological signal is lost at the level of injury.
The peculiarity of the know-how is to deliver variable targeted stimuli to the different regions of the spinal cord. While the stimuli currently used in clinics are stereotyped, namely there is no variability among impulses, the technology used in the laboratory provides stimuli varying in both amplitude and frequency. These variable impulses work better because each neuron likely receives a message that is better tailored upon its own excitability threshold.
So, the laboratory investigates whether any electrical and pharmacological strengthening of synaptic transmission in the spinal cord can facilitate weak descending input to coordinate the recruitment of flexor and extensor muscles in hind limbs, proposing a unique multi frequency stimulation paradigm that includes highly varying waveforms.
Technology Keywords
Clinical Research, Trials;Medical Technology / Biomedical Engineering;Pharmaceutical Products / Drugs;Physiotherapy, Orthopaedic Technology
Keyword Codes:
06001002;06001013;06001015;06001020
Current Stage of Development
Intellectual Property Rights
Secret Know-how
IPR Comments:
Exploitation of RTD Results
Organisation/Company Type
Organisation/Company Size
Organisation Comments
Detailed Market Application Codes (VEIC)
MA Keyword
Surgical instrumentation and equipment;Surgical implants;Electromedical and medical equipment;Laboratory equipment;Medical instruments
MA Keyword Codes:
05003002;05003003;05004001;05004003;05004004
Application Domain Description:
Collaboration Type
Comments:
They are looking for partnerships with the medical sector, since the approach of the laboratory could be used for
• development of new breakthrough and versatile technologies
• pharmacological treatment
• different motor disorders (e.g. aging, bladder disorders)
• prototypes for clinical trials
• pain treatment
• muscle stimulation / fitness