Company:Skulpt
Skulpt is a fitness tracking company focused on muscle health. They raised finance on crowd funding platform Indiegogo. The company produce portable consumer electronic devices that measure body fat percentage and muscle quality.[1] These devices rely on the use of electrical impedance myography (EIM) to measure muscle quality. EIM has been used to evaluate patients with neuromuscular diseases however the company is focused on marketing their products for the personal fitness market. The devices are handheld and are pressed against the skin area corresponding to a specific muscle group, an electrical current flows, impedance is measured and the output is a muscle quality score.[2] Whereas the accuracy and validation of the device and approach has been questioned, particularly in healthy individuals,[3] considerable data has been previously obtained showing EIM's sensitivity to muscle status in healthy individuals with aging[4] and with muscle disuse.[5] More recent work has also shown that the technique is sensitive to drugs that enhance muscle fiber hypertrophy.[6]
References
- ↑ "Skulpt raises $4.1M for smartphone-connected body fat and muscle tracking device" (in en-US). http://mobihealthnews.com/48785/skulpt-raises-4-1m-for-smartphone-connected-body-fat-and-muscle-tracking-device/. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ↑ Napier Lopez (January 7, 2016). "The Skulpt Chisel tracks your body fat, not your heart rate". The Next Web. https://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2016/01/07/the-skulpt-chisel-tracks-your-body-fat-not-your-heart-rate/#gref.
- ↑ "The health gadgets at CES 2016 want to body shame you into buying them". https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10724414/ces-2016-fitness-tech-quantified-health-bad-science/. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ↑ "Kortman HG, Wilder SC, Geisbush TR, Narayanaswami P, Rutkove SB. Age- and gender-associated differences in electrical impedance values of skeletal muscle. Physiol Meas. 2013 Dec;34(12):1611-22.".
- ↑ "Tarulli AW, Duggal N, Esper GJ, Garmirian LP, Fogerson PM, Lin CH, Rutkove SB. Electrical impedance myography in the assessment of disuse atrophy. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2009 Oct;90(10):1806-10.".
- ↑ "Sanchez B, Li J, Yim S, Pacheck A, Widrick JJ, Rutkove SB. Evaluation of Electrical Impedance as a Biomarker of Myostatin Inhibition in Wild Type and Muscular Dystrophy Mice. PLoS One. 2015 Oct 20;10(10):e0140521.".
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