Sana’s Origin Story

In 1992, Richard Hanbury was forced to crash his jeep off a bridge in Yemen. He was pronounced clinically dead for 8 minutes and then in a coma for 6 weeks. After waking up, he spent the next 14 months in the hospital.

The doctors gave Richard five years to live due to the extreme chronic nerve damage pain. After a lightbulb moment while watching a film in the hospital, he began the journey to save his life. To produce the most lasting pain relief, he experimented with the different neuromodulation patterns and bio-metric sensors which normalized how his brain processed pain signals.

The earliest prototype removed all of his nerve damage pain, and he has been pain-free since 1993. Richard tested his technology with the British Special Air Service, U.S. Air Force, Richard Branson Virgin Challenger flights, and the first Solar Impulse flight around the world – then in 2016 started Sana Health to graduate that early anecdotal data into large-scale clinical trials, as the next step in getting the device into the hands of those who need it.