Essential hand tremors refer to the involuntary shaking of the hands. These tremors affect the patient’s daily life as they cannot use their hands in the way they want. The person not only suffers physically but mentally as well. They cannot do the things they like without other people’s help, which can take a toll on their self-esteem and dignity.
Joon Faii Ong is the inventor of the GyroGlove, an innovative technological wearable from the tech company GyroGear. This glove has been created and designed to combat hand tremors caused by neurological disorders like Parkinson’s Disease and others that lead to body tremors.
He is the inventor of the GyroGlove and believes more people will require this globe in the near future as multiple patients need to live with essential hand and body tremors. He hopes to help patients reduce their dependency on medicines that carry with them side effects adverse to their health. These medicines work for a limited period of time and last for a maximum of ten years.
How does this incredible innovation work?
GyroGlove places a force that combats hand tremors, no matter serious they are. They help patients to retain their hand balance and tightly grip the things they wish to hold. With this technology, these tremors can be controlled as patients are able to move their hands in the way they want. This helps people to execute their daily tasks like drinking water, opening a lock with a key, and eating without spilling liquid and food.
Targeted at millions of people across the world
It has been estimated there are more than 10 million people across the world with Parkinson’s Disease, which is a progressive neurological disorder whose symptoms start in hand. The patient faces involuntary hands, and what starts as a light shake turns intense with the passage of time.
To date, the only form of cure was a medication that lasted just for some months or even weeks. The side effects they carried were adverse and included nausea, involuntary changes in the mood, compulsive behavior, and disturbances in a person’s gait.
The GyroGlove will not only help people with Parkinson’s Disease but people with essential hand tremors caused by other lesser-known health conditions due to stroke, multiple sclerosis, and stroke.
Joon Faii Ong had the desire to create a device with the potential to offer people with Parkinson’s Disease the chance to regain the confidence that they hand before with their hand movements. A personal connection with an elderly patient in a London hospital under the care of their medical firm inspired him to invent the gyro glove. He saw her struggling to drink her soup and causing half of it to drop down on her dress. When he asked the other nurses and learned she suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease, and her hand tremors were bad. He has belief in his patients and knew if he cared for them, he would find a permanent solution to the issue.
