Millions live with essential tremor (ET) or Parkinson’s disease, with debilitating tremors affecting daily life. Historically, treatment options have been medications or even surgery. The Cala kIQ System is a sleek, empowering, accessibly-designed wearable that delivers powerful, non-pharmacologic, and non-invasive Transcutaneous Afferent Patterned Stimulation (TAPS) therapy on demand, to radically reduce tremors and improve daily living. It’s the only FDA-approved device of its kind.

Cala Health is a US-based medical device manufacturer whose mission is to free people from chronic disease. They partnered with our team to design a wearable that could deliver the proper treatment while being discreet enough to fit into patients’ lifestyles without feeling or looking like a medical device. From packaging, application, usability, and charging, the Cala kIQ is carefully designed to be completely accessible, stylish, and comfortable enough to wear on the wrist all day while delivering clinically proven medical treatment and actionable insights for the patient and clinicians managing the treatment plan.

The Cala kIQ merges innovations in neuroscience and technology to deliver bespoke therapy. It measures each patient’s unique tremor physiology and individualizes a nerve stimulation pattern for tremor relief, allowing patients to resume daily tasks like cutting vegetables and eating without spills. Following three months of repeated home use in 205 patients, 9 out of 10 experienced tremor reduction after a complete 40-minute treatment session with the majority maintaining relief lasting for over an hour after therapy.

Where tremors also impacted mental health, discouraging people from doing what they love, Cala kIQ has given people the ability to live fully again.

Approximately seven million people in the US have ET, and up to a million suffer from Parkinson’s disease. Traditional treatments often have adverse side effects, creating a need for non-invasive options. Cala kIQ is the only FDA-cleared, clinically validated non-invasive device for the relief of hand tremors.
Aesthetically, Cala kIQ is sleek and minimalistic with tactile buttons.

It uses dry electrode, which are comfortable, reusable, and leave no residue. The first-of-its-kind wrist-worn device is discreet and designed to fit seamlessly into patients’ lifestyles, with a magnetic charging base station for ease of use.

Category:MedicalYear:2024Designers:PA Consulting Design Team, PA Consulting, San Francisco, California, USA and Cala Health, San Mateo, California, USAManufacturer:Cala Health, San Mateo, California, USA