Innovative Technology: The Lokomat
As the region’s leading provider of physical medicine and rehabilitation, MossRehab offers you advanced technologies for diagnosis and treatment.
One of these technologies is the Lokomat®, a robot-assisted walking therapy.
The Lokomat helps patients relearn how to walk
Primarily used with patients who have experienced a spinal cord, stroke or brain injury, the Lokomat takes a longstanding form of physical rehabilitation – treadmill therapy – several steps further than ever before.
Using a harness and a computer-controlled mechanical suit, the Lokomat helps strengthen and train impaired muscle groups to help the body relearn how to walk. With the patient supported in a harness above a treadmill, a robotic exoskeleton moves the body in a natural walking pattern, while also measuring and regulating how much effort the patient expends.
Through repeated use, the Lokomat stimulates the legs and neurological system so that they gradually reorganize once familiar walking patterns. Eventually, muscle mass and body systems are rebuilt enough so the patient can walk on his or her own.
The Lokomat puts MossRehab on the vanguard of rehabilitative robotics
The Lokomat represents a giant step forward in walking therapy, which otherwise requires two or more physical therapists who manually help a patient move his or her legs to enable walking. Compared to therapist-assisted walking therapy, the Lokomat helps the patient walk in a more consistent gait for longer periods of time, which leads to a quicker recovery.
MossRehab is one of the few facilities in the U.S., and the first in the Delaware Valley, to offer therapy with a Lokomat.