Locations
London, ON, Canada
industry
Health · Medical Devices
Size
1 - 10 employees
Stage
Pre Seed
founded in
2022
Every year, 180,000 people in the United States have their leg amputated below the knee. Currently, that is 1.4 million people. In 90% of cases, the cause is diabetes or vascular disease, which predominantly occurs in seniors. Unfortunately, amputees experience changes in their residual leg's volume, such that a change of just 1-2% causes pain. This pain is just the start: half of all lower limb amputees develop pressure sores, and the five-year mortality rate for a person with a below-knee amputation is as high as 82%. As daunting as this may seem, Vessl has a unique solution. We have developed an automatically adjusting prosthetic socket that redistributes pressure around the leg in response to a change in limb size. Join us in helping amputees get reliably back on their feet.
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