02-12-2024, 04:15 PM
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Clinical study in HK confirms Singapore’s Bixeps machine improves muscle strength
02-12-2024, 04:19 PM
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SINGAPORE – Madam Chia Lu Ting, 71, was wheelchair-bound after being badly injured in a fall in July. But her weekly use of the Bixeps machine at the Care Corner Senior Care Centre in Toa Payoh East had her back on her feet within three months.
All she had to do was to put one leg into the machine for 10 minutes on a weekly basis.
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The machine, which was developed in Singapore, uses low-energy magnetic fields to stimulate cells in the muscles, strengthening them.
Although only the leg is inserted into the machine, the benefit extends throughout the body, said Associate Professor Alfredo Franco-Obregon of the National University of Singapore (NUS), the primary researcher behind the machine.
He started work on the machine at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university, and finished it at NUS. He and cardiac surgeon C.N. Lee – the man who got him to join NUS – are two of the owners of QuantumTx, the company hived off to commercialise the Bixeps machine. The patent belongs to the university.
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Bixeps simulates the effects of exercise by activating and stimulating mitochondria – the energy-making part of cells in the body – with the use of magnetic pulses.
The stimulated mitochondria produce energy that triggers a metabolic response in the cells, causing factors called myokines to be released into the bloodstream and carried throughout the body. Myokines aid the regeneration of muscles, as well as regulate the body’s organs.
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Prof Franco-Obregon said more than four in five people showed significant improvement after a couple of months, but a small number did not seem to benefit.
The latest verification of Bixeps’ claims came from a clinical trial by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. The results of the study were published in the Frontiers in Medicine journal in October.
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SINGAPORE – Madam Chia Lu Ting, 71, was wheelchair-bound after being badly injured in a fall in July. But her weekly use of the Bixeps machine at the Care Corner Senior Care Centre in Toa Payoh East had her back on her feet within three months.
All she had to do was to put one leg into the machine for 10 minutes on a weekly basis.
......
The machine, which was developed in Singapore, uses low-energy magnetic fields to stimulate cells in the muscles, strengthening them.
Although only the leg is inserted into the machine, the benefit extends throughout the body, said Associate Professor Alfredo Franco-Obregon of the National University of Singapore (NUS), the primary researcher behind the machine.
He started work on the machine at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university, and finished it at NUS. He and cardiac surgeon C.N. Lee – the man who got him to join NUS – are two of the owners of QuantumTx, the company hived off to commercialise the Bixeps machine. The patent belongs to the university.
......
Bixeps simulates the effects of exercise by activating and stimulating mitochondria – the energy-making part of cells in the body – with the use of magnetic pulses.
The stimulated mitochondria produce energy that triggers a metabolic response in the cells, causing factors called myokines to be released into the bloodstream and carried throughout the body. Myokines aid the regeneration of muscles, as well as regulate the body’s organs.
......
Prof Franco-Obregon said more than four in five people showed significant improvement after a couple of months, but a small number did not seem to benefit.
The latest verification of Bixeps’ claims came from a clinical trial by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. The results of the study were published in the Frontiers in Medicine journal in October.
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