What is the Lokomat®?

The Lokomat® is a robot-controlled gait orthosis that automates gait training on the treadmill and considerably increases the efficiency of treadmill training. The Lokomat® supports the patient in walking using computer-aided sensor and drive technology.
Depending on the patient's individual capabilities, the Lokomat® facilitates completely passive to active walking with or without taking the weight of the body.

What does Lokomat® therapy achieve?

The positive effect of targeted, regular Lokomat® therapy on independent mobility has been determined in adult stroke and paraplegic patients.

Initial results for children with cerebral palsy seem to confirm this.

When is Lokomat® therapy used?

• To improve uprightness and the ability to walk
• To improve gait symmetry
• To reduce spasticity
• As a functional therapy supplement to physiotherapy or sEMG feedback
• To improve vegetative functions
• To prevent osteoporosis
• To improve the motivation to move
• To quantify the activity actually produced by the child

What does a Lokomat® therapy session involve?

• Social and neuropaediatric case history and examination
• Clinical examination of lower extremities
• Individual adjustment of the Lokomat system to the patient
• Carrying out the Lokomat® therapy depending on walking ability and loadbearing capacity, with taking of body weight and walking support by the equipment on the treadmill

When is it not possible to provide Lokomat® therapy?

• The length of the thigh is less than 21 cm.
• Clear difference in leg lengths
• Hip dysplasia (>50%)
• Severe osteoporosis
• Body weight > 135 kg
• Lack of cooperation
• Unstable bone fractures
• Upright walking prohibited because of serious illness or malformations
• Serious skin disorders