Orpyx wants to save the feet of diabetics from amputation

Faced with the amount of foot problems causing amputations in diabetics, Dr. Breanne Everett decided to use modern technology. She developed Orpyx, a company that creates smart health connected insoles.

Orpyx should limit foot ulcers

It is an evil often overlooked. Diabetics live with the risk of amputation. This is the discovery that Dr. Breanne Everett made while studying surgeon. So she decided to pause her medical career and get into the high-tech world. His product? A smart health connected sole, created by the company Orpyx. This is used to detect if there is anything abnormal in the foot and to alert the patient. He then receives instructions to encourage him to move or, on the contrary, to sit down and check the inside of his shoe and his foot.

According to studies, between 15 and 25% of diabetics experience foot ulcers. And 20% of these cases will have to be amputated. The device consists of a smart health connected sole and a smart health watch. The life of the sole is estimated between 12 and 18 months. Small problem, however, the Orpyx insoles are currently only available in North America. However, trials are underway in Great Britain, so we can hope that they will soon arrive in Europe. It remains only to take his pain in patience.

Diabetes and smart health connected objects

Diabetes is a disease based on the inability of the pancreas to regulate the amount of glucose (sugar) in the body. Type 1 diabetics (especially young people) do not produce insulin. Those of type 2 (mainly after 65 years) have a lack of assimilation of sugar in the body. Poor sugar regulation leads to narrowing of the arteries, a decrease in oxygen supply and therefore a loss of nervous sensitivity. It is the latter that is dangerous. The patient feels less pain and does not worry about an injury that does not heal and becomes infected. An infection that can lead to gangrene and amputation.

This is not the first time that smart health connected devices have been used to help people with diabetes. Agir in this area is a matter of public health since more than 3.5 million people are affected in France. Globally, there are more than 285 million patients! Google has teamed up with DexCom to launch an object that can monitoring blood glucose levels in real time. iHealth and MySugr, two pioneering companies in smart health connected health have joined forces to make monitoring over time easier for diabetics.

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