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A moment of inspiration

PainRelief.io® exists because of a motorcycle accident, a hospital bed, and a moment of inspiration.

In 2012, inventor Rhett F. Spencer was in a motorcycle accident that left him with six broken ribs and a two-day hospital stay. What followed could have been a long, difficult recovery — made harder by the side effects of the pain medication that came with it.

Instead, Rhett had a moment of inspiration. He'd been working on nanocapacitors for a new kind of antenna, and it occurred to him that the technology might do something unexpected. He asked his wife to retrieve the antenna he'd built just two days earlier and place it on his chest. She did, and Rhett fell asleep almost immediately.

A few hours later, he woke up on his way to the bathroom and realized the intense, see-stars pain he'd been living with was gone. He told his wife he was out of pain and could breathe as deeply as he wanted. She didn't believe him — he hadn't taken any of the opioids he'd been prescribed. “Raise your arm,” she said, testing him. He did, and quickly put it back down — that still hurt. But once his arm was lowered again, the pain faded quickly.

Over the next five days, Rhett wore the makeshift patch and recovered without taking any other medication. Then the real search began — figuring out how, exactly, this had worked. Five years of research, testing, and prototypes followed, tried first on friends and family, before the product launched in 2017. That search led to patented NeuroCuple® technology — a passive, drug-free approach designed to work with the body's own bioelectrical environment. ⚑