What is the Gangroboter?

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

What does Gangroboter therapy achieve?

The positive effect of targeted, regular Gangroboter 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 Gangroboter 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 Gangroboter therapy session involve?

• Social and neuropaediatric case history and examination
• Clinical examination of lower extremities
• Individual adjustment of the Gangroboter system to the patient
• Carrying out the Gangroboter 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 Gangroboter 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