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Can IUD Insertion Hurt Less – Replacing a Hundred-Year-Old Gynaecological Device: Mathieu Horras, Aspivix

October 03, 2023 Alex Jani: interviewing visionaries of healthcare innovation
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Can IUD Insertion Hurt Less – Replacing a Hundred-Year-Old Gynaecological Device: Mathieu Horras, Aspivix
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You never know: it may be the worst pain in your life or barely "an inconvenience". Many believe the pain is worth it – set it and forget it, up to 10 years of birth control. But is that whole pain trully indespensable? Or is it there because women's pain has not been taken seriously enough?

You’ll hear about inserting IUD, an Intrauterine Device, 

  • how much does it hurt – on a 0-10 scale, 
  • the differences in how patients and how doctors perceive the pain,
  • how two brothers came up with a suction-based device that may lessen both the pain and the bleeding, 
  • and how their femtech team have grown.


Mathieu Horras is the CEO of Aspivix. An engineer turned international marketing and business leader in medical device turned femtech entrepreneur. He joined the two brothers to make the gynecological proceedures less painfull.

Aspivix is a Swiss startup that aims to finally replace the forceps bullet extractor used in gynecology for over a hundred years – a tenaculum. They developed a gentler, suction-based cervical stabilizer, clinically proven to reduce pain and bleeding during transcervical procedures without compromising on performance.

Here's more about Aspivix:
https://www.aspivix.com/

Timestamps:

0:00 Mathieu Horras and Aspivix

1:10 Male-Founded FemTech and Empathy

6:03 Bullet Extractor Turned Cervical Tenaculum

9:45 What is the IUD, IUD Pain

20:37 Engineer's Approach: There Are Technical Solutions to Every Problem

23:25 Carevix - New Cervix Stabiliser for Gynecologists

37:46 Where Is Carevix Available?

40:08 Building a FemTech Startup

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Mathieu Horras and Aspivix
Male-Founded FemTech and Empathy
Bullet Extractor Turned Cervical Tenaculum
What is the IUD, IUD Pain
Engineer's Approach: There Are Technical Solutions to Every Problem
Carevix - New Cervix Stabiliser for Gynecologists
Where Is Carevix Available?
Building a FemTech Startup
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