Axon for chronic pain

COMBINING NEUROSCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND DATA ANALYSIS TO HELP TREAT A RANGE OF NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS WITHOUT THE USE OF PHARMACEUTICALS.

Whether it’s chronic pain or concussion, stroke rehabilitation or post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression or endometriosis, Exsurgo’s technology – and its centralised data collection hub Exsurgo Connect – analyses brain activity and then puts the power of our own brains to use to help treat those conditions.

A REVOLUTION IN PAIN MANAGEMENT, EXSURGO’S PROPRIETARY AXON SYSTEM IS NON-INVASIVE, EASY-TO-USE AND HAS NO SIDE-EFFECTS* OR TOLERANCE BUILD UP.

When wearing the headset, brain-activity data is tracked and displayed on the user’s own mobile device via our app. Through real-time visual feedback, the user learns to neuro- modulate the pain signals by recognising and modifying their response, causing a significant decrease in pain.

At a fraction of the price of traditional EEG technology, Axon empowers everyone, everywhere to manage their own treatment from the comfort of their own home.

The deployment of Exsurgo’s technology has the potential to save the UK healthcare economy in the region of £5.6B (US$7.9B) per year.

EXTRACT FROM TREATING CHRONIC SEVERE PAIN: THE ROLE OF AXON IN REDUCING GLOBAL COSTS.

Dr Nick Birch FRCS (Orth), Consultant Spinal Specialist

The Burden
of Pain

Pain is like an alarm that goes off when nerves in the body send a signal to the brain. Chronic pain – or pain that is experienced every day for more than 3 months and may not be related to a specific illness or injury – is basically when that alarm doesn’t switch off. Estimates of the prevalence of chronic pain vary between studies, but it’s thought to affect around one in five people and that’s expected to increase in the coming years.

The burden on individuals and society as a whole is significant, in terms of direct health costs for appointments, drugs and other treatments, lost productivity among those experiencing pain and their carers, and the intangible costs of suffering from an often debilitating condition. In the US, one study estimated the total costs of chronic pain ranged from US$560 to $635 billion. That is greater than the annual costs of heart disease, cancer and diabetes respectively.

Around the world, health authorities are looking for ways to reduce opioid misuse and addiction and recommending non-addictive pain treatments like exercise and psychological-based therapies. Axon offers huge potential to reduce the use of drugs to treat chronic pain and other neurological conditions, materially lower health care costs and improve patient outcomes.

A UK clinical trial saw participants who suffered from various types of chronic pain using Axon from the comfort of their own home to measure changes in pain intensity alongside associated symptoms (depression, anxiety, sleep, and quality of life). The trial was led by Dr Nick Birch, an Orthopaedic Consultant, and his analysis suggests the deployment of Axon has the potential to save the UK healthcare economy in the region of £5.6B (US$7.9B) per year.

In the US, he says the potential impact of Axon is three times as great as in the UK in terms of cost-effectiveness, but will also have a major impact on reducing opiate dependence and the annual death toll from opiate overdoses.