Chiaro: UK tech company develops pelvic floor exercise tracker
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Tania Boler, founder of women's tech company Chiaro, with pelvic floor exercise tracker, Elvie.
Chiaro launches pelvic floor exerciser
is the first product launched by British women바카라 사이트檚 tech company, Chiaro. It combines the latest developments in wearable technology with cutting-edge medical advances.
Elvie is an exercise tracker for the pelvic floor. Users can use their smartphones to track progress and find out how to improve their technique.
Innovate UK awarded the business a grant in its start-up phase.
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Tania says:
Elvie is so important for every woman out there. Your pelvic floor is a key part of how we need to look after our bodies. What we did was take the best of medical technology and turn it into something elegant and simple to use.
Without regular exercise, pelvic floor muscles can cause more than half of all women바카라 사이트檚 bladder, sex or prolapse problems.
Elvie is the smallest kegel tracker available and 98% of testers found it comfortable to use. Made from medical-grade silicone, it uses the latest in sensor technology. Elvie has won a number of awards including the Red Dot Award: Product Design in 2016 .
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Chiaro launched Elvie less that 2 years after winning the grant. Tania says:
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The company has grown quickly too, from 5 employees in 2015 to 22 now, to an expected 30 by the second quarter of 2017.
Tania continues:
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