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The Armeo is a sustainable and powerful therapy concept for individuals who have suffered strokes, traumatic brain injuries or neurological disorders resulting in hand and arm impairment.
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Armeo® Therapy Concept
Helping patients to grasp the initiative and reach towards recovery
Despite the patients’ disorder, research suggests that the neural plasticity of the brain is retained and new connections can be made through intensive, repetitive and task-oriented movements.
Using this clinical evidence as a basis, the Armeo Therapy Concept has been developed. It comprises a modular line of three Armeo products all driven from a single software platform. The result is a comprehensive therapy concept which addresses different patient and therapeutic needs across the whole Continuum of Rehabilitation.
Hocomo
Hocoma is the leader in robotic rehabilitation therapy for neurological movement disorders.
Functional movement and sensory stimulation play an important role in the rehabilitation of neurological patients following stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis as well as other neurological diseases and injuries.
Armeo® Power
The ArmeoPower is specifically designed for patients with severe movement impairment who have no voluntary activation of their arm muscles yet.
The equipment combines adjustable, ergonomic guidance of the impaired arm with interactive therapy exercises, driven by the shared Armeocontrol software.
Arm Weight Support
The ArmeoPower has a robotic arm exoskeleton, with an electric lifting column for comfortable height and weight adjustment, allowing active arm support in a large 3-D workspace. It can be used for both the left and right arm and hand, is adjustable to different arm sizes and to the height of the patient. A positioning system correctly aligns the shoulder joint for ergonomic actuation and the product promotes movement in all relevant joints.
Augmented Feedback and Assessment Tools
The ArmeoPower will be equipped with the same Armeocontrol therapy software as the rest of the Armeo products, with motivating exercises, games and simulations to provide self-initiated functional exercises, and a wide range of assessment options.
The ArmeoPower is based on ARMin technology which has been developed at the ETH Zurich and the University Hospital Balgrist, Switzerland, under Prof. R. Riener and Prof. T. Nef.
Armeo® Spring
The ArmeoSpring is specifically suited for patients who are beginning to regain active movement of the arm and hand, and has already proved to be successful in many clinics worldwide. The ArmeoSpring is often becoming the preferred therapy choice of recovering patients, it is based on research and development conducted under Prof. D. Reinkensmeyer at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), USA.
Armeo® Spring Paedriatic
Functional arm and hand therapy for children
The ArmeoSpring Pediatric is specifically designed for and adapted to the needs of children with movement impairments in their arms and hands resulting from neurological conditions. It is a valuable tool to improve therapy by facilitating intensive and functional movement exercises supported by motivating, game like tasks as a basis for best possible therapy outcome.
Key Facts
- The ArmeoSpring Pediatric is based on the Hocoma product ArmeoSpring
- The length of the orthosis and the amount of Arm Weight Support can be adjusted to children in the age group of about 4-12 years
- As the rest of the products from the Armeo Therapy Concept, the ArmeoSpring Pediatric includes Augmented Feedback and Assessment Tools to encourage and motivate patients
Clinical Benefits
The ArmeoSpring Pediatric provides the following clinical benefits:
- Motivating and entertaining arm and hand therapy for children
- Reveals any remaining motor function
- Even moderately to severely impaired children can benefit from highly intensive, repetitive, self-initiated movement therapy
- The workspace is adjustable to the patients’ capabilities
- Optimum integration of arm, hand and wrist brings the whole movement chain into the therapy