GoFlowX is a wearable drainage-valve device in development for people who use a urinary catheter and have limited hand dexterity. Open and close the valve by voice command or companion app — with a physical override button as backup.
Standard catheter drainage valves demand finger strength and precision. For people living with spinal cord injury, MS, arthritis, stroke or other conditions affecting hand function, that small lever can mean depending on a carer several times a day for one of the most private tasks there is.
GoFlowX sits in-line on your existing catheter drainage tube, worn on the body or mounted to a wheelchair or frame.
Your drainage tube seats into the side channel — designed for simple loading without precise centring or alignment.
Secure with straps through the side slots, or bolt directly to a wheelchair or frame using the threaded mounting points.
Open or close the valve with a voice command, or from the companion app — which shows you the valve's live state at all times.
A physical override button on the device gives you or a carer direct manual control as a backup, whenever it's needed.
Actuate the valve by voice command or through the companion app, with a manual override button on the device as backup.
The app doesn't just send commands — it confirms the valve's actual state, so you always know whether it's open or closed.
An integrated, layered fail-safe scheme is built into the design, backed by the physical override button.
The tube channel is designed to accept your drainage line without the precision alignment other powered valves require.
Battery powered with standard USB-C charging behind a protective door. Battery-life figures will be published after testing.
Strap slots for body wear, plus threaded inserts for fixed mounting to a wheelchair or bed frame.
If limited hand function makes your current drainage valve hard or impossible to operate alone:
For occupational therapists and continence clinicians assessing assistive technology options:
GoFlowX targets the Australian market through NDIS-funded community users and aged care facilities:
Catheter valves are designed as if everyone has full use of their hands. For hundreds of thousands of people, that assumption fails every day. We're developing GoFlowX in Australasia, targeting TGA Class IIa compliance and an NDIS assistive-technology pathway from day one.
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