Hocoma Launches New Version of its Established Gait Training Device LokomatPro

/PRNewswire/ -- In strong collaboration with clinical research partners, Hocoma recently introduced a new and more compact version of the LokomatPro that offers greater system capabilities. Since the launch of Hocoma's first gait therapy device in 2001, the LokomatPro has established itself as an effective intervention for improving over-ground walking function in patients with neurological diseases and injuries resulting in gait impairment.

The new LokomatPro version was developed based on the needs and experience of patients and clinicians, as well as technological advances. The device provides extensive locomotion training to help trigger greater functional improvements in appropriate patients with spinal cord injury, stroke, brain injury and other neurological conditions. It features a new design and is equipped with the Augmented Feedback and a touch screen as a standard. In the future, upgrading options, including for example, additional degrees of freedom at the hip joint, sophisticated control strategy, higher gait speed, will extend the LokomatPro as a sophisticated gait training device supporting therapists and the patients in reaching their therapy goals. As in the preceding versions with the optional Pediatric Orthoses, the LokomatPro provides intensive locomotion therapy also for the treatment of children with cerebral palsy or other neurological disorders.

Over 300 Lokomat in over 50 countries worldwide

The Lokomat, a driven gait orthosis, is used for robotic gait training of neurological patients with movement disorders caused by stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease or other neurological diseases and injuries. The Lokomat has been available on the market since 2001 and has been a crucial improvement in the art and science of locomotion therapy. Currently, there are over 300 Lokomat systems successfully applied in over 50 countries worldwide. In the US about 90 systems are installed. The Kessler Foundation/Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation ( . Hocoma develops and produces therapy solutions for neurological patients with movement disorders caused by stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis or other neurological diseases and injuries as well as small children with cerebral palsy.

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Hocoma Launches New Version of its Established Gait Training Device LokomatPro

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My mom is 73 and was recently diagnosed with a spinal cord stroke. She has no feeling from the waist down, she is on a foley catheter. she can move her toes but nothing else. she had brain aneurysm surgeries 30 years ago. she is on 02 for severe COPD. She is in a rehab/skilled nursing facility now. in March she fell at her assisted living facility and broke her left hip and left wrist. This is when she went to the rehab facility, she was doing good with her rehab, but in less than a week there, I checked on her on my way to work and found that she could not feel her legs. She was taken back to the hospital and had a gamat of tests. they cold not do an MRI due to the metal clips in her head. I was told to move her out of her assisted living facility and she will be at the rehab/skilled nursing facility for long term. my mom is 73 and was recently diagnosed with a spinal cord stroke. She has no feeling from the waist down, she is on a foley catheter. she can move her toes but nothing else. she had brain aneurysm surgeries 30 years ago. she is on 02 for severe COPD. She is in a rehab/skilled nursing facility now. in March she fell at her assisted living facility and broke her left hip and left wrist. This is when she went to the rehab facility, she was doing good with her rehab, but in less than a week there, I checked on her on my way to work and found that she could not feel her legs. She was taken back to the hospital and had a gamat of tests. they cold not do an MRI due to the metal clips in her head. I was told to move her out of her assisted living facility and she will be at the rehab/skilled nursing facility for long term. I assume she is actually in a "subacute" rehab facility, which is a nursing home with perhaps 1 hour of therapy daily. Did you try to get her into a good acute rehab program, esp. one that specializes in SCI rehab? It is difficult to do this for elderly patients, but a family member pushing hard can make a big difference. If she were more independent in her self care, could she live by herself on in assisted living? Most acute rehab centers will not take anyone with a disabilility for rehab if there is no viable discharge plan except to go to a nursing home.


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