Music Professor Develops Device to Treat Speech and Hearing Disorders

London, July 01 (ANI): An assistant music professor has created a device with unique therapeutic applications that can treat speech and hearing disorders and memory loss, among other things.

Called Sonik Spring, J. Tomas Henriques invention is a 15-inch metal spring resembling a Slinky toy that is outfitted with gyroscopes and accelerometers to capture three-dimensional motion and provide kinesthetic feedback.

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The Sonik Spring also transforms recorded sound as the user expands, compresses, twists, and bends it.

"It's like making a sculpture only the recorded song or words are your clay," said Henriques,

He imagines patients who have a suffered a stroke or who are in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease doing exercises with the Sonik Spring that are tied to cognitive functioning.

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For patients undergoing physical therapy, he sees them using it to rehabilitate upper-body muscle functioning.

"Now, they may do exercises that are difficult to measure and boring. This can make it easier to measure and more fun for the user," he said.

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"It can tell with precision if the patient is getting better. You can send the results directly to your physician through the computer," he added.

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