iPod Touches can be used to ease the suffering of people suffering from chronic diseases, a US medical project finds a new use for the company's products Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
Although they are no longer sought after by users, iPod Touches could have a new role in the world, more precisely as medical devices that could help people suffering from chronic diseases to ease their suffering.
According to information provided by a US medical project, iPod Touches are now used by people suffering from chronic diseases, Apple products controlling electrical devices that prevent the transfer of certain electrical signals to the brain.
More precisely, the device is placed on the patient's spine, directly on the skin, emitting certain electrical impulses intended to interrupt those that indicate a certain level of pain in a certain part of the human body.
iPod Touches connect to this device via Bluetooth, the electrical impulses emitted by it being of low intensity, but sufficient to interrupt the electrical signals intended to generate the sensation of pain.
The Invisible Trial System was designed to improve the comfort and usability for patients evaluating spinal cord stimulation therapy to alleviate their chronic pain, without focusing on potential barriers such as programming trial cables and systems with complex trial controls.
Although iPod Touches are used by patients to control medical devices, doctors use iPad Mini tablets to program them and retrieve statistics on the use made by patients to ease their suffering.
This is the first neuromodulation project initiated so far in the US, and the use of iPod Touches could give the Apple company new reasons to keep this product on the market, to give those without an iPhone a control method.
According to the statistics provided by the initiators of the project, more than 1.5 billion people suffer from chronic diseases, so a technology of this kind could help extremely many people around the world to lead a much better life.
