The Southern Nevada Business Plan competition appears to be seeding Westchester County, notably via a sonic circulatory blaster that does not require a doctor”™s visit.
Sponsored by the University of Nevada”™s Las Vegas School of Business in conjunction with the Las Vegas chapter of the national small-business counselor SCORE, the contest”™s first prize went to a web plan for amateur sports fundraising.
Medsonix, one of four runners-up for top spot and winner of $1,000 for its efforts, began its company life trying to extract metals from sand via sound waves. During the process, a worker noticed circulatory problems in his hands were getting better.
As the company reported in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Word of that reached a man in Florida, who came to Las Vegas in spite of the company”™s skepticism to absorb sound waves. Afterward, he was able to walk better and farther than he had in several years as arteriosclerosis had hampered his mobility.?“This led to a decade of refining the process, including commissioning a study from UNLV confirming the therapeutic value of sonic waves, obtaining patents for using sound waves to treat circulatory disorders, certain tissue diseases and blood disorders, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration certification that the device did not cause harm.”?Medsonix now has centers in Las Vegas and Naples, Fla., where people absorb sound waves in half-hour packages of four for $199.
The company reports locations are in the works for Los Angeles and Westchester County, though no specific locations have been announced.
Forty-two teams entered the Las Vegas business competition. Besides, Medsonix, three other companies, from 42 total entries, won $1,000.
