Frederik Lundqvist

Frederik Lundqvist is a Swedish chiropractor and inventor based in Stockholm. In 2009, while trying to relieve the pain of a friend living with multiple sclerosis, he recalled a neurological response called the Mariefoix reflex, which allowed a spastic leg to bend with less resistance, and asked himself whether an electrical impulse could trigger it. That intuition became the Exopulse Mollii Suit.

He developed the garment with physiotherapist Jörgen Sandell and fashion designer Andreas Halldén, building a wearable system of 58 embedded electrodes that stimulates up to 40 muscle groups for one hour every other day. Launched as a medical device in Europe in late 2012 by his company Exoneural Network AB, the suit now belongs to Ottobock’s neuromobility programme for spasticity and pain.