Title: A hands-free method for pain relief to enhance compliance with cold treatment and therapy

Team: Megan McCreight, Kim Hwang Yeo, Daria Sondossi, Eric Chong

Client: Point-of-care – Janice Schwartz, MD (UCSF)

Cold therapy has been used for centuries to reduce pain and swelling of muscles and joints. The modern standard of care is incredibly simple, cubed ice in a plastic bag or a bag of frozen vegetables, though there are many technologies on the market that attempt to improve upon this solution. While cold therapy is simple to use and has relatively few side effects, patient adherence to cold therapy recommended by a doctor remains an issue, specifically for difficult to treat areas, such as the shoulder.

Our unmet need centers around developing an easy to use method for reducing pain in post-shoulder injury patients over 50 years old in order to increase patient adherence