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Chennai, 18th July 2024: JOGO Health, a prescription digital therapeutics company headquartered in New Jersey, USA has announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic aimed at advancing the understanding and treatment of various tremors like Parkinson’s tremors, functional tremors (FT) & essential tremors (ET). Under the new partnership, combining medical analysis and device development expertise, the two entities seek to pioneer AI-driven digital therapeutics for these conditions.
The joint study will focus on developing specialized treatments particularly for functional tremors, which currently lack effective medical therapy options and often require patients to take extended time off work or school. Mayo Clinic has a financial stake in the technology mentioned here, using revenue generated to advance its nonprofit commitment to patient care, education, and research. The collaborative study, set to commence in September 2024. JOGO, has already demonstrated early success in treating Parkinson’s disease.
Movement disorders including tremors constitute a major burden among the neurological disorders in India. Based on the study by Prashant et al. the prevalence of tremors in Indiais 7.7%.
Gary Krasilovsky, Chief Scientific Officer of JOGO Health, commented “Our present experience in helping patients with various forms of tremor has been very positive. We hope this collaborative study will reveal significant results that support our previous findings and help expand treatment options”.
JOGO Health’s CEO, Sanjai Murali, stated, “I’m excited about the confluence of Mayo Clinic’s expertise in tremors and JOGO’s expertise in EMG Biofeedback modality to develop specialized treatments for tremors. This has the potential to help millions of patients who do not have effective treatment options.”
JOGO incorporated a patented AI-driven wearable sensor applying the science of EMG Biofeedback facilitating neuroplasticity. JOGO is a non-invasive, portable, wireless digital device that is 510K exempted by the US FDA.
JOGO Health has operations in India at 10 major cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai & Kolkata. JOGO Clinic,Chennai(Adyar) which is also world’s 1st JCI Accredited Comprehensive Rehab Centre. JOGO Health intends to expand its services to 20 cities by 2025..
