Robotic rehab gets patients walking
From: Medical Design - 09/2006 - page 26
Edited by: Stephen J. Marz

Patients with partially severed spinal cords often end up as paraplegics,
despite thousands of dollars of rehabilitation. New research and the Lokomat,
a tool invented by engineers at Swiss-based Hocoma could change many of those
outcomes. It suspends a patient above a treadmill and physically moves the
patient's feet, legs, and hips, recreating a correct or normal gait. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.medicaldesign.com/articles/ID/13186

Links:
Hocoma
http://hocoma.ch/

