2023’s best medtech innovations
Category: Best Medical Technology
Nominee: Valencia Technologies Corp.’s eCoin tibial neurostimulator
The nickel-sized eCoin neurostimulator implanted is placed in the lower leg to reduce UUI symptoms by delivering intermittent stimulation to the tibial nerve.
“This is a landmark approval for physicians, and UUI patients as eCoin is now the first and only implantable tibial nerve stimulator approved by the FDA,” Valencia founder Jeff Greiner said in a news release announcing the FDA approval. “eCoin will facilitate a paradigm shift for UUI treatments by offering physicians an efficient option for implantation with high patient satisfaction. The simplicity and effectiveness of eCoin will enable more patients to achieve the help they desperately need.”