Visible

'Visible has emerged as a game changer in healthcare tech' - TechCrunch Haje Kamps, who lives with a complex chronic health condition, shares how Visible’s mission resonates and the impact it's already having on his life. These difficult-to-diagnose and debilitating conditions affect millions and are wildly overlooked. But as Haje notes, 'Visible is lending its voice to the healthcare tech revolution — providing a much-needed spotlight on the underserved' and is ‘starting to illuminate a new way forward for chronic illness sufferers.' Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gGXkns99

Absolutely love seeing feedback like this, when people first get their hands on Visible Plus - our premium subscription version for pacing, with a continuous HR monitor arm band 🤩 Harry Leeming Luke Martin-Fuller Dominik Roszkowski Josh Dibble #mecfs #longcovid #healthtech

Listen to David Putrino of Mount Sinai Health System discuss Visible’s role in the hidden pandemic of complex chronic illness on Dr. Sanjay Gupta's CNN Podcast. David and Sanjay's conversation covers what we know about Infection-Associated Complex Chronic Illness; including the impact of multiple Covid infections on triggering Long Covid and the desperate need for better treatment, support, and management for these invisible illnesses. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dMQttqKv

We’re proud to feature in Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong's incredible piece in The Atlantic exploring the reality of 'Fatigue' in chronic illness. Fatigue is a profoundly debilitating symptom that is too often misunderstood and trivialised. Ed highlights that: • Fatigue is severe and multifaceted. Unlike everyday tiredness, it's not alleviated by sleep and difficult to push through. • Post-exertional malaise (PEM), a key symptom of ME/CFS, is a state of complete exhaustion even after mild physical/mental activity. • Despite being able to objectively measure it, PEM is often ignored due to beliefs that exercise is beneficial and ill health should be overcome by will. • Treatment is mainly about symptom management; activity management is crucial but difficult due to societal expectations. You can read Ed’s article here (https://lnkd.in/gHSy5c2C), to find out more about why individuals battling fatigue face disbelief, despite scientific support for their experiences, and why they need our empathy and our support.

🎓 Today, we’re proud to be partnering with Imperial College London to launch our first in-app research studies into Complex Chronic Illness starting with Long Covid and ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). In the past 6 months, an incredible 30,000 people have started using the Visible app to better measure and manage their health. But this data isn’t just powerful individually; it's amazingly powerful for researchers too. That’s why we’re empowering our community to help move the science forwards. From today, Visible users can enroll into research studies straight from their smartphone. If you have ME/CFS or Long Covid, download the Visible app, join the research, and help us make invisible illness, visible. https://lnkd.in/eqcE8FEq Victoria Male Christian Morgenstern Sabine L. van Elsland

This week our CEO Harry Leeming spoke to disability advocate Bérénice Magistretti at Forbes about why we need to talk about invisible illness and the work we’re doing at Visible. “We’ve known for decades that infections can trigger chronic conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Chronic Lyme and Fibromyalgia, but these conditions have been largely ignored by the healthcare system, leaving millions of people to manage their illness on their own.” “By measuring them, we can make these illnesses visible - visible to patients so they can better manage them, visible to researchers so they can better understand them, and visible to doctors so they can better diagnose and treat them.” #invisibleillness #LongCovid #MECFS #ChronicLyme #Fibromyalgia https://lnkd.in/ex4V3zHj