I have cough for a week now and I use the nebulizer 2-3 times a day to reduce the phlegm..
"[...] papatulong sana ako sayo, prayer for a cancer patient, mom siya ng friend ko.. may cancer sa lung.. kumalat na"
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Wicab, Inc. has developed the BrainPort™ technology to transmit external sensory information to the brain through a substitute sensory channel: electrotactile stimulation of the tongue. The use of the tongue as a sensory substitution channel has been previously established (see technical papers section of web site). For the brain to correctly interpret information from a sensory substitution device, it is not necessary for the information to be presented in the same form as the natural sensory system. For example, we do not see with the eyes; the optical image does not go beyond the retina where it is turned into spatio-temporal patterns of action potentials along the optic nerve fibers. The brain then recreates the images from analysis of the impulse patterns. Thus, for a sensory substitution event to occur, one need only to accurately entrain action potentials in an alternate information channel, which do not differ significantly for the individual senses. With training, the brain learns to appropriately interpret that information and utilize it to function as it would with data from the intact natural sense. In the proposed balance applications, the BrainPort device substitutes for the lack of vestibular input by transmitting information about head position, as sensed by an accelerometer, to an electrode array placed on the tongue. Prior research with a prototype device has shown that the BrainPort device permits people with severe or profound Bilateral Vestibular Loss (BVL) to maintain near-normal static posture control under a variety of conditions, including quiet sitting or standing and during activities of daily living, such as walking in a crowd or on soft uneven surfaces.* The BrainPort balance device is essentially a mechanism to supply sensory information to the subject through electrical impulses directed to the tongue. The tongue is a uniquely qualified target for electrical impulses because of 1) the density and sensitivity of nerve fibers at this site and 2) the suitability of the tongue to receive and maintain electrical contacts in terms of chemical environment, which minimizes the electrical energy requirement and point of contact skin irritation.
