Table 4.
A summary of participants' responses to the questionnaire proposed during the stimulation with EXOPULSE Mollii.
| Open-ended questions | Responses | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How did you feel putting the EXOPULSE Mollii suit on? | • No major issue, but perceived need for help to properly put on the suit, due to the poor motor function of the affected hand (n = 12) | |||
| • Increased ease of putting the suit on over time (n = 12) | ||||
| OFF-settings | 20 Hz | 30 Hz | ||
| How do you feel wearing the EXOPULSE Mollii suit? | Overall EXOPULSE Mollii suit use | • Well-being (n = 15) | ||
| • Tight feeling in the body (n = 7), perceived as discomfort by one participant | ||||
| • Feeling of warmth, perceived as a positive effect (n = 1) | ||||
| • Feeling of cold and stiffness, mainly at the higher frequencies (n = 1) | ||||
| • Itching (n = 1) | ||||
| Heaviness (n = 1) | Slight claustrophobia (n = 1) | – | ||
| EXOPULSE Mollii stimulation | General sense of stimulation distributed throughout the body, especially in the first minutes of application (n = 11) | |||
| – | • Tingling (n = 8) | Tingling (n = 8) | ||
| • Muscle-relaxing effect on the affected hand and/or foot (n = 5) | ||||
| • Flickering (n = 1) | ||||
| • Well-being (n = 1) | ||||