Working with the Department of Defense
EMF Disturbance Monitors, Inc. is an American company based in North Carolina. In the southern United States, the Department of Defense is among the largest employers in each state. North Carolina has major military facilities for all branches of the Department of Defense with the exception of the Space Force. As with any employer, soldiers, sailors, marines and astronauts require food, clothing and equipment for their jobs. This provides an economic opportunity for many industries, including start-ups. I think you would agree that our men and women in the military deserve the best products available, given the sacrifices they make on our behalf every day.
North Carolina has recognized the economic impact of the Department of Defense and has supported many resources to match North Carolina companies with business opportunities. One resource is First Flight Venture Center, a non-profit located in the Research Triangle Park. First Flight Ventures acts to coordinate opportunities with providers in the military industry space. EMF Disturbance Monitors, Inc was recently chosen to participate in the Propeller incubator program with a focus on business opportunities with the Department of Defense.
Our company is developing a medical device platform to measure electromagnetic energy emitted by muscles and nerves. The Department of Defense has more than 2 million employees. Each one is also a patient who requires medical assessment, diagnosis of medical problems and treatment of potential employment-related injuries. We view this population as potential customers who may benefit from our new technology. Our technology has the potential to identify differences in electromagnetic energy production by muscles and nerves in patients with a disease as compared to normal patients.
The greatest potential use of our technology is in studying patients where the electromagnetic energy emission is significantly higher or lower than norms. One such potential application is traumatic brain injury (TBI). Warfighters suffer from TBI as an employment-related injury. This includes open head injuries and closed head injuries. Some of the most difficult challenges in treating TBI are patients with closed head injuries. One example would be a soldier who sustains a TBI when an IED flips a motor vehicle in a war zone. Although warfighters with TBI may not have abnormalities seen with a CT scan or MRI, their symptoms are consistent with a brain injury. PET scans (a medical device that measures metabolic activity by using radioactive glucose) can sometimes detect a decrease in cellular activity in a particular area of the brain. However, there are currently no non-invasive, outpatient tests which can assist medical providers in identifying specific areas of the brain which are underperforming after TBI.
EMF Disturbance Monitors, Inc. is working with First Flight Venture Center to study the possibility that EMF disturbance technology can identify abnormalities in electromagnetic energy emission by nerve centers after TBI. This would involve a clinical study, similar to our recent successful cardiac study, where we test EMF disturbance technology in patients with TBI and normal control patients. Stay tuned as we investigate this opportunity for another potential application of our technology.
