Title of Profil	Rehabilitation equipment designed for personalized and monitored knee therapy
Reference	10 CH 84FB 3GWT
Country of origin	Switzerland
Offers/Requests	Offer
Entry/Update	2010-03-19 / 2010-03-19
Status	This profile is expired! For further details, please contact your local EEN office. (2011-03-18)

Abstract

A research institute at a Swiss University has developed an automatic equipment to assist knee therapy with the aim to fasten and improve rehabilitation outcomes. Therapists are able to track recovery progress over an easy-to-use interface and to set relevant training parameters for clinical and home therapy. The institute is looking for partners to collaborate in clinical studies and to introduce the product into the market.

Details

Rehabilitation therapy is a very important process to recover function after knee surgery or injury. The goal of rehabilitation is to restore full range of motion. Today, physical therapists perform relatively tedious rehabilitation exercises several times a day over a few days. Patients are instructed to continue therapeutic exercises after leaving the clinic for a few weeks, several times a day, but motivation and ability to perform exercises correctly is rather limited which often prevents from optimal recovery.

The Institute has developed an automatic orthopedic equipment to assist knee therapy with the aim to fasten and improve rehabilitation outcomes. The device can be used both in clinical and unsupervised home programs. Therapists are able to track recovery progress over an easy-to-use interface and to set relevant training parameters for clinical and home therapy. Initial tests in clinics have highlighted the benefit of technology-aided therapy for knee rehabilitation. Currently, a prototype is available for further clinical testing.

Innovative Aspects:
The developed device has the following advantages:
- Assistance of orthopedic therapy with automatic equipment;
- Progress monitoring during therapy
- High reproducibility and controllability of movements to reduce pain during treatment and to accelerate the healing process
- Clinical and home therapy

Technology sector	- Environmental Medicine, Social Medicine,Sports Medicine - Medical Technology / Biomedical Engineering - Physiotherapy, Orthopaedic Technology
Market application	- Therapeutic
Stage of development	Available for demonstration
Patent Rights (IPR)	Secret know-how
Cooperation type	- License Agreement - Joint further development - Engineering - Technical consultancy Type of partner sought: Companies interested in transfer of technology in the medical and orthopedics fields Academic partner(s) interested in performing clinical studies in collaboration with clinics and therapeutic centers Specific area of activity of the partner: Companies active in rehabilitation and orthopedics, interested in the series manufacturing and the worlwide distribution of therapeutic equipment Academic partner active in the field of physiotherapy Task to be performed by the partner sought: Clinical study Series manufacturing Product conformity certification depending on target countries Introduction into the market, distribution
Organisation type	Research institute/University      Org. Size: 50-249

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