Calmare Therapeutics Inc (fka CTTC)

[Vaffan-Coulo]

"...quaking in his boots?"????

Uhhhhhhhhh...well, to the extent that my sometimes uncontrollable laughter reading about anything to do with CTTC causes me to "quake," yes, but otherwise, no.

"...a difference between treatment and a placebo."??? Oh, you have NO IDEA what a difference! Why, at her presentation at the hicksville nurse conference, Angela presented MIRACULOUS data:

Oral Roberts would be proud

There she claims:

"There were 16 male and 14 female participants in the study with an average age of 44.6 years. The mean pain intensity score at baseline was 8.4. At 1 and 3 weeks post-treatment, the Scrambler group had a mean pain score of 1.2 and 1.4 while the Sham group was 6.8 and 7.1 respectively. Pain medication consumption decreased by 50% in the Scrambler group but not in the Sham group."

Wow! Pain decreased from a mean of 8.4 to around 1.2 at one AND three weeks with calmare! And they cut their pain meds by 50%! PLUS -- "Allodynia was reduced from 77% to 15% in the Scrambler group at 3 weeks."!!! Can I have a, "praise the Lord!"

In any case, somehow or another, those numbers underwent a REMARKABLE change before she reported them put them on the clinicaltrials website:

witness the transformation

Gasp! What happened! Now the pain score in the calmare treated group went from a "medium" score of "5.4 ± 2.1" to a so-so score of "3.2 ± 1.2"! What happened? Some evil data elf sneak in and change the numbers?

Or did SOMEONE realize the abstract numbers were embarrassingly ABSURD and change them to something more rational before putting them somewhere that someone might actually find them?

So, as far as "well, this is one" goes...yeah, maybe, but, you know, I REALLY prefer randomized trials where the data DOESN'T CHANGE to fit the occasion!

Ditto for the appearance of the former "worked as an orderly in a small community hospital mostly on nights" -- aka "Patrick Coyne" -- but now is helping Angela promote fraud FOUR YEARS after helping Smith promote fraud.

"The study was designed and funded by the NIH..."???? Uhhhhhh...I doubt it. NIH, As best I know the NIH doesn't design studies. It is, however, funding some of Angela's pain sensitivity research but that started AFTER Angela's calmare study which -- according to:

talk about a waste of money

...was completed over a YEAR and a HALF ago BEFORE she got her NIH grant. Note that it also says her calmare trial was "funded by the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing Center for Biobehavioral Clinical Research. Total costs: $10,000. Project dates: 3/13-7/13."

Note ALSO that Conrad ("aka "Bullteat") has mentioned Angela I think only Twice in shareholder presentations and ALL he does is quote her as saying:

"A potentially effective non-pharmacological therapy for ameliorating pain intensity in patients with persistent low back pain."

Well, gosh, ain't THAT exciting! A little strange though it's just "potentially" after those MIRACULOUS results she got BEFORE the numbers changed -- isn't it?

In any case, who cares, right? CTTC is effectively BANKRUPT! They've been disowned by the guy who invented their product and now get nothing but "cease and desist" letters from his lawyers. They're being SUED by the company that USED TO manufacture the device for them because they haven't yet paid the OVER FOUR MILLION dollars owed GEOMC. They're being SUED by the former sales manager -- the one responsible for government sales -- for breach of contract. And practically EVERY asset of CTTC has a LIEN on it!

So, at this point, whether calmare works or not seems essentially irrelevant.