The Lokomat uses an individually adjustable exoskeleton combined with dynamic body weight support, with adjustable hip and knee joint angles to tailor the device to a patient’s specific needs during training. Customisable and versatile, the Lokomat can train a wide range of patients to develop a healthy physiological gait pattern – even those with severe disabilities.

The Lokomat allows therapists to focus on the patient and their therapy, rather than be limited by the strain of traditional gait therapy. It enhances staff efficiency and safety, which leads to higher training intensity, more treatments per therapist, and consistent, superior patient care.

“The evidence around robotic gait training is strongest for people who are more impaired after stroke, and who are in the early phase after stroke. That’s exactly the group of patients that we see on our units, day in and day out. These patients are hard to deliver good rehab to because it’s difficult and resource-intensive to achieve intensity with patients who are really impaired.

So it seemed like a really good fit and a really good solution to a challenge we have in our day-to-day clinical practice.

… I can’t imagine being without [the Lokomat] now. You can’t imagine going back to what you did before, but you don’t know that until you’ve had the opportunity to use it.” – Dr Louise Johnson, University Hospitals Dorset.