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CLEVEMED PERFORMS MICROGRAVITY HEALTH MONITORING


Cleveland, Ohio, September 6, 2001 - Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (CleveMed) has just completed its research program with Colorado State University to monitor people in a micro-gravity environment. CleveMed has developed a wireless health monitor, the BioRadio. The BioRadio allows the brain (electroencephalogram, EEG), heart (electrocardiogram, EKG), muscle (electromyogram, EMG), and sleep (polysomnograms, PSG) to be monitored. Because it is the world's first device that can monitor muscles without requiring athletes, patients, and research subjects to be tethered to bulky medical monitors, it is a natural to be used to help monitor astronauts in space. The BioRadio was used in these experiments because it eliminated the long wires that could entangle the participants.

In space, muscles atrophy due to the lack of gravity. Countermeasures against muscular atrophy have become a focus with the International Space Station (ISS) and for future long-duration missions going to Mars. Cleveland Medical Devices helped Colorado State perform microgravity experiments on the NASA KC-135 aircraft (called the Vomit Comet) to investigate the efficiency of an exercise called the straight leg deadlift (SLD). This is a required resistive exercise performed by the astronauts. The experiments showed that due to the lack of gravity and stabilization devices, the current straight leg deadlift done in microgravity causes the astronauts to lean over too far, recruiting the wrong muscle groups; therefore creating a possibility of injury to astronauts.

The BioRadio and its electromyography (EMG) showed that
  • Due to the lack of gravity the body attempts to right itself, changing the muscles normally used in this exercise.
  • The muscles, which contract regularly in gravity, were activated erratically during the same exercise in microgravity.
  • Back muscles fatigue more in microgravity than they do in gravity. This may increase the possibility for lower back injury due to changes in the exercise technique in microgravity.
  • The data gathered by the Colorado State students with the BioRadio confirmed that changing the exercise technique in microgravity should help prevent astronauts

About CleveMed

Cleveland Medical Devices is the third fastest growing medical device manufacturer in the United States according to Inc. Magazine (Inc. 500, October 2000). It is the 10th fastest growing company in Ohio and the second fastest growing company in Cleveland.

CLEVEMED has received 38 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Federal Government grants and contracts to develop its wireless medical monitoring technology. In addition to the medical uses, the military has adopted CLEVEMED's MicroSynth® technology on five different programs. It is being developed for use on planes, missiles, and helicopters. This has provided a solid technology base for CLEVEMED's microcellular tracking technology, as well as for its wireless hospital. Robert N. Schmidt, president of CLEVEMED states, "Our miniature 'stick on' sensor being developed for the Air Force has many medical applications as well. It adds to our wireless hospital technology to allow patients to be monitored for physiological data, voice, and location. In addition to helping defend our country, our technology will help us save the brains of over 1,000,000 Americans per year with undiagnosed non-convulsive seizures that cause permanent brain damage. It also has significant applications for safety personnel." CLEVEMED has obtained clearances to market from the FDA (and FCC) on six products and is working on others. Schmidt said, "Our next step, obtaining outside funding, will expedite our market penetration.

Media: Craig Lanese
Investors: Robert N. Schmidt
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