Katie is one of many that say a device developed by researchers in Nottingham helped calm her symptoms.

When Katie was just a child, her tics were so relentless they left her bedridden with a sore throat for two weeks.

The now 15-year-old says living with Tourette’s affected her ability to sleep, eat, and caused her to miss school.

But a wrist device developed by researchers in Nottingham helped her calm down in an “instant”.

Katie recalled trying it on for the first time, and said: “It was absolutely life-changing. It was like the best day of my life.”

  • Ninja876English
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    32 minutes ago

    I have a buddy w/ tourette’s, his tics aren’t nearly this bad. But he is so self conscience of them its like pulling teeth to get him to go out. Forget drinking the tics are 3x as worse because he worries more about them and he ends up tic’ing even more.

    I hope he can use this device to help him out, he’s a really nice guy and it sucks to see him shutter himself away.