Europe’s automated bioelectronic platform designed to help prevent immobility-related blood clots, from hospital to home.

CIRCULA®

A Smart Electrical Stimulation

With a background of more than 25 years of research at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, Matrix Muscle Support (MMS) provide a patented technology developed to enhance electrical stimulation therapies and deliver optimized solutions across healthcare, rehabilitation, gaming, and sports applications.

  • “A Smart, Adaptive Neurostimulation Platform for Circulation Optimisation.”
    MMS product, CIRCULA®, is a bioelectronic thromboprophylaxis platform activating the calf muscle pump via targeted NMES. This can be used to counteract the worldwide growing health problems associated with physical inactivity. The overall goal is to offer better human performance and healthier life through on-demand improvement of human muscle abilities.

A New Era in Blood Clot Prevention

MMS is pioneering breakthrough health technology centred on a bioelectronic stimulation platform designed to help prevent vascular complications associated with inactivity.

“Restore walking-level circulation, without movement”

Designed to be Seamless, Compact & Effective

  • Electrical stimulation is an emerging technology that is increasingly being used as an alternative/complement to exercise and rehabilitation and which can even make spinal cord injured patients move their limbs. Electrical stimulation, done correctly, can solve many medical problems such as reducing blood sugar levels, reducing the risk of blood clots, increasing fat burning, and reducing pain in patients.

    However, today's electrical stimulation is not optimal, partly because many people experience discomfort/pain with the stimulation and partly because they often do not know how to use NMES in a correct way, which leads to poor adherence to the treatment.

  • Modern lifestyles keep us sitting more than ever — and our bodies are paying the price. Prolonged sitting is often compared in health discussions to smoking due to its risks. The calf muscles act as a “second heart,” helping pump blood back to the heart with every step. That's why it's so important to try to take at least 10,000 steps each day, preferably spread out throughout the day, to keep the blood flowing. When immobilized or sitting still, the calf muscle pump does not work.

    Passive measures, such as compression stockings, have limited blood clot prevention effect, or no effect at all on increasing blood flow. Even external pump machines that compress the muscles have been shown to have limited effect in everyday life because they are difficult to carry around.

    However, the calf muscle can be made to contract itself with the help of a small electrical impulse which increases the blood flow in the knee fold by over 300% according to Dr. Paul Ackermann's research.

  • MMS's patented precision method is based on a matrix of electrode surfaces placed over the relevant area. A weak electric pulse scans all possible electrode combinations and searches for a response. If no response is triggered, the current is increased and the procedure is repeated, until a combination finally triggers a response. In this way, we have now identified both the optimal motor point combination and the intensity level on which the subsequent electrical stimulation can be based.

  • We have developed a method and a product that 1.) Identifies the lack of physical activity, 2.) Searches the relevant area for the most efficient and comfortable motor points, and 3.) Stimulates exactly where it gives the most effect with the least current.

    This product, that we call “CIRCULA®”, is composed of 1.) A matrix patch, 2.) Control unit, supported by 3.) Smart search algorithm, 4.) Smartphone application, and 5.) Matrix cloud storage .

    In the future, data collected in the cloud will be analysed with AI to enable the product to predict adverse events so that the user and health care system can be warned before adverse events occur (e.g. blood clots).