Firm launches ReWalk exoskeleton suits in Europe
The ReWalk exoskeleton suit which paralysed equestrian Claire Lomas used to walk the London Marathon course of didactics is forthwith commercially available inward Europe for personal use.
Argo Medical Technologies says it has established Argo Medical Technologies GmbH to serve every bit the European middle of operations to back upward the launch together with to supply ongoing service to customers.
Argo executives announced the European launch at Rehacare, an international merchandise fair for rehabilitation, prevention, integration together with self-determined living.
Several ReWalk users demonstrated the engineering to swain attendees together with potential candidates for this groundbreaking technology.
“The ReWalk personal organisation is forthwith beingness utilized inward everyday life inward Germany, Italy, State of Israel together with the United Kingdom,” Argo principal executive Larry Jasinski said.
“We forthwith get got 10 rehabilitation centres alongside preparation systems inward 5 European countries together with computer program to hold to add together to a greater extent than locations.
“This launch is an of import pace to brand the ReWalk available to anyone who wants one.”
Lomas, the get-go someone to get got domicile the ReWalk for daily use, discussed her experiences using the organisation at domicile together with inward other routine activities.
Lomas, from Leicestershire, was injured inward 2007 during an eventing accident that left her paralyzed from the breast down.
In Apr 2012, she used the ReWalk to walk the London Marathon course of didactics over a 16-day period, together with inward doing then raised to a greater extent than than £200,000 for spine injury research.
As a result, Lomas was chosen to low-cal the celebration cauldron inward Trafalgar Square to kick-off the 2012 Paralympics inward London.
“This extraordinary engineering allowed me to consummate the entire marathon course,” she said, “but the mightiness it has given me inward my daily life, to await out my kitchen window, walk alongside my miss or to become to the pub together with stand upward to speak alongside everyone at oculus degree are moments that I tin forthwith have.”
The ReWalk is designed to compass those alongside lower limb disabilities, such every bit paraplegia, an sense that is every bit or then natural walking every bit possible.
The exoskeleton suit uses a patented engineering alongside motorised legs that mightiness human knee together with hip movement.
Battery-powered for all-day use, ReWalk is controlled yesteryear on-board computers together with displace sensors, restoring self-initiated walking without needing tethers or switches to get stepping.
It controls drive using subtle changes inward middle of gravity, mimics natural gait together with provides functional walking speed.
A forrad argument of the upper trunk is sensed yesteryear the system, which triggers the get-go step.
Repeated body-shifting generates a sequence of steps, which allows walking. The suit likewise sits, stands, allows turning together with has the mightiness to climb together with descend stairs.
Argo Medical Technologies was founded inward 2001 inward Israel, It is forthwith an international society alongside bases inward the US, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany together with Israel.
More information: http://www.argomedtec.com/
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