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Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. Presents Poster at the 2022 Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (“CMSC”) Annual Meeting
-- Study finds significant improvement in gait deficit in multiple sclerosis patients using translingual neurostimulation (“PoNS Therapy®”) combined with a
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[{"type":"text","content":"-- Study finds significant improvement in gait deficit in multiple sclerosis patients using translingual neurostimulation (“PoNS Therapy®”) combined with a therapeutic exercise program -- -- Poster was one of ten rehabilitation research presentations nominated for the Labe C. Scheinberg Award recognizing the platform or poster, in each therapeutic category, that has the greatest impact in advancing the care of people with MS -- NEWTOWN, Pa., June 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:HSDT) (“Helius” or the “Company”), a neurotech company focused on neurological wellness, today announced that a poster detailing the benefits of the Company’s Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (“PoNS”) Therapy combined with a therapeutic exercise program was presented at the 2022 Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (“CMSC”) Annual Meeting held June 1-4, 2022, in National Harbor, Maryland. “The CMSC Annual Meeting is a wonderful opportunity to engage with thought leaders and researchers in the MS space. We are delighted to share the benefits of our innovative PoNS device and to be part of the community that is working to bring cutting edge interventions to improve gait deficits in patients with MS. It is especially gratifying that our poster was selected out of 150 to receive a prestigious award nomination,” stated Antonella Favit-VanPelt, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer of Helius. “Importantly, this latest dataset provides key real-world evidence of our therapy’s clinical benefits, which can be seen at two weeks from beginning rehabilitation treatment with PoNS. We look forward to continuing to gather real-world evidence through our Therapeutic Experience Program (“TEP”), a multi-center, company-sponsored, open label observational interventional trial to evaluate the impact of subjects’ adherence to PoNS therapy for gait improvement in MS, as well as through patients’ voluntary participation to our upcoming registry program as part of the recently announced Patient Therapy Access Program,” concluded Dr. Favit-VanPelt. Study Conclusions In this analysis of a real-world dataset of patients with MS with generally long duration of disease, translingual neurostimulation (PoNS Therapy) combined with a therapeutic exercise program significantly improved gait deficit at Week 2, the earliest evaluated time point, and at...