(via Engadget)
This new gadget might sound totally fake, but it is a real product (or soon will be). Prepare in the future to have your bones repaired via ultrasonic bone stimulation from the EXOGEN 4000+ Bone Healing System!
Smith & Nephew’s (NYSE: SNN, LSE: SN) Orthopaedic Trauma & Clinical Therapies division today announced FDA
approval for its EXOGEN 4000+* Bone Healing System.
The EXOGEN 4000+ Bone Healing System is a low-intensity pulsed ultrasound device that is externally applied 20 minutes a day over the site of a broken bone. It is the ONLY bone stimulator:
- using ultrasound technology approved to treat fractures that that have failed to heal;
- approved to heal specific fresh fractures faster
The EXOGEN 4000+ is medically proven to promote the body’s natural healing process, speeding the repair of a broken bone. The system is also clinically proven to speed up the healing of certain new fractures by 38 percent and effectively healing 86 percent of hard-to-heal bone fractures.
The system will launch in domestic and International markets in the fall of 2006, and will replace the EXOGEN 2000+*.
There you have it – bone healing from a handheld sonic device. Soon, we’ll be repairing tumors, stopping bleeding, healing phaser knife wounds, and more. This is an exciting time to be seriously injured, isn’t it?
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If only it had done something–anything–for me besides waste my time! It’s a $1,000 non-returnable gadget. I wonder how big a kickback my orthopedist got for recommending this turkey.
And to think I could have bought it on E-Bay. Say . . . maybe I’ll sell it on E-Bay, like all those other chumps are doing.
I’m off to surgery now.
Ow. Sorry to hear that, Kelley. I wondered if it was worth anything – I haven’t seen any reviews or evaluations for it, but I haven’t looked for them that much, either.
Thanks for the comment.
Beware when buying one off eBay as it may well have reached the end of its programmed life.
Interesting. I don’t think I’d ever considered the expected lifetime of a device like this. I guess I never saw Captain Kirk need maintenance on his, so just figured whatever these do they would keep doing for a long time. Thanks for the visit and comment.