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KHQA - Wearable Devices Invented to Reduce Stress, Anxiety and Panic
Wearable Devices Invented to Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and Panic
Many people have to overcome anxiety, stress and even panic attacks on occasion to get through their days and weeks.
Some of those people are turning to a new alternative to medication.
It's called The TouchPoint Solution.
People wear these small, vibrating devices on watches or on each side of their body for relief. According to Neuropsychologist Dr. Amy Serin, the vibrations reduce stress, increase focus, and improve sleep.
Patients also have used them to deal with PTSD, ADHD, Autism and Parkinson's Disease.
"When you feel stress, your body's fight or flight mechanism engages, which does things like make your stomach hurt or your chest get tight or you have tension in your shoulders," CEO and co-founder Vicki Mayo said. "When the TouchPoints turn on, they actually don't allow that fight or flight mechanism to engage."
You can control the vibrating devices through an app.
Users also can customize them with six presettings for calm, focus, sleep, performance, anger, and cravings.
*This article first appeared in KHQA Online on Thursday, February 22nd 2018, by Rajah Maples. To read the full article and watch the related video, click here.
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TouchPoints can improve attention span by over 505% in as few as 30 seconds. These wearable devices that are non-invasive, controlled by the user, and can be worn on the wrists or clipped to pockets or clothing. Utilizing a neuroscientific discovery made by Dr. Amy Serin, TouchPoints was initially used to alleviate stress. Research studies have shown that TouchPoints have profound effect on individuals with ADHD, not only increasing engagement and attention span span but also reducing hyperactivity.
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This stress-alleviating neuroscience wearable promises to aid in tackling symptoms of conditions such as ADHD and Autism.
TouchPoints Basic are another crowdfunding success story. Originally founded in 2015 by Neuropsychologist Dr. Amy Serin and executive child advocate Vicki Mayo, After launching their first device – called TouchPoints Original and priced at $240 – in December 2016. In less than six weeks sales had topped $500,000.
Since then the pair have pursued their dream of helping more people get access the technology so this year they launched an Indiegogo campaign to develop a new, more affordable version of the device, at a much lower price point of $135. The response was incredible and by July 2017 they had reached almost $150,000, 956% of the initial goal, and aim to ship all campaign related orders by the end of September.
These cunning little gadgets are non-invasive, wearable devices that uses patent pending neuroscience to relieve stress in as little as 30 seconds. Using quantitative electroencephalogram data, existing neuroscience research and archival data, Dr Amy Serin determined the device produced significant and quantifiable brain changes after just seconds of use.
Over the last decade, Dr Serin’s work in therapy and neuroscience led to a breakthrough realization that a component of successful PTSD treatment could be used as a stand-alone product for a range of individuals whose stress and intensities hamper performance, relaxation, sleep, and their ability to cope with sensory stimuli.
TouchPoints use Bi-Lateral Alternating Stimulation Tactile (BLAST) stimulation to give the user a gentle vibration that affects the brain and alters the body’s fight, flight or freeze response. Checkout the TouchPoints Research page for links to the supporting in-house and academic studies.
We are deeply committed to giving back. It is our co-founders’ mission to create a more healthy, peaceful, and productive world through a fundamental shift in the way people understand and handle their stress response by making BLAST technology accessible for everyone.
Feeling pretty tightly wound, as usual, I was dying to experience the benefits of all that lovely science so I strapped on a pair, connected the app via Bluetooth and well… wow! Honestly the experience was quite strange but after a few moments of tingling and getting used to the vibrations my mind felt clearer, or at least lighter and breathing was a little easier.
I was shocked at the speed of the reaction but the vibrations felt a bit too strong and a too distracting from my train of thought so I stopped them and reset the intensity via the app. With the setting now lower I tried again and left them on for five minutes. I felt a similar clearing of the mind and easing of the breathing but the effect was less strong this time, less abrupt. However it persisted after I stopped the TouchPoints leaving me feeling calmer, I was genuinely impressed.
TouchPoints uses technology that gently interferes with the body’s stress response and produce a more calm, focused state. Thousands of users report they feel more calm, are able to sleep better, and perform better with use.
No doubt more tinkering with the settings in the app will help find the optimum set up for me but I can honestly say that TouchPoint are on to something here. As a next step we’re interested to share this with my wife’s grandfather who suffers from Parkinson’s, as TouchPoints’ Indiegogo page reports positive results in helping alleviate anxiety in patients and even achieving reduction of tremors in some cases. Watch this space for updates!