Skulpt
Skulpt is a fitness tracking company focused on muscle health. They raised finance on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. The company produces 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 have 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". Mobi Health News. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ↑ Napier Lopez (January 7, 2016). "The Skulpt Chisel tracks your body fat, not your heart rate". The Next Web. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ↑ "The health gadgets at CES 2016 want to body shame you into buying them". www.TheVerge.com. 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". Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ↑ "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". Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ↑ "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". Missing or empty
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