Month: July 2021

The power of the mind: how brain-computer interfaces like Axon can help treat chronic pain, by Exsurgo’s Chief Technology Officer Faisal Almesfer

As an engineer who has spent over 15 years working in the health sector, I’ve always sought to harness the latest science and technology to come up with novel solutions to challenging problems.  When I was studying my Masters in Mechatronics at Auckland University, my thesis was on a home use robotic rehabilitation device and, …

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The back-shed inventor who built a pain-fighting brain machine, The Spinoff

In the first article of our content series with The Spinoff, they take a deep dive into the history of Exsurgo – starting from Richard’s ambition and innovation to help people close to him who had suffered the effects of a stroke, to the founding of Rex Bionics, all the way to the development of …

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Fort William Born Inventor Leading The Fight Against Chronic Pain

Our very own Richard Little, who was born in Fort Williams, Scotland, was recently highlighted in this article from The Highland Times talking about the progress Exsurgo has made so far with Axon and their UK trials. As the article said: A recent UK study has confirmed the exciting potential of a breakthrough treatment for …

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The Guardian’s Linda Geddes on the ‘reorganisation of the pain system’

In the excellent introductory feature to The Guardian’s week-long series on chronic pain and long Covid, Linda Geddes detailed the growing prevalence of chronic pain and the acceptance of nociplastic pain in the medical community. As she wrote: Traditionally, doctors have divided pain into two categories: nociceptive pain, triggered by injuries such as bruises, burns, …

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The Guardian’s week-long series on chronic pain and long Covid

The Guardian is running a major editorial series called The Pain That Can’t be Seen, which takes an in-depth look at the growing health issue of chronic pain and how the pandemic might have exacerbated it given musculoskeletal pain is a common complaint of those who have had Covid-19. “Sufferers of chronic pain have long …

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