Series Production of Innovative Rehabilitation Device Started in Switzerland

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Series Production of Innovative Rehabilitation

Device Started in Switzerland

PR Newswire

OLTEN, Switzerland, June 14, 2012

OLTEN,

Switzerland

,

June 14, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

REHA Technology AG Switzerland Manufactures Only

Walking Robot in the World Capable of Simulating

Climbing Stairs

The only neuro-rehabilitation device in the world capable of simulating climbing

stairs in addition to all other types of walking is now manufactured in series

production by REHA Technology AG in Olten,

Switzerland

, under the name

"G-

EO-System".

The CE- and FDA-certified device has been sold globally since

spring this year.

The device is intended to assist patients affected by stroke, craniocerebral

injury, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, or paraplegia, in a novel and

highly effective way to re-learn his/her own motor function. The product adapts

in a completely dynamic and continuously variable way to the patient's needs

and reduces the physical strain on the therapist.

The first few devices have already been used successfully in some rehabilitation

centres. Prof Esquenazi, M.D., head of one of the most prominent rehabilitation

centres in

the United States

- the "MossRehab in

Philadelphia

- found in his

study a significantly faster full recovery in patients using the

"G-EO-System"

.

Further studies from

Italy

and

Germany

also support the efficacy for the

patient, the cost saving for the health insurances, and the physical relief for the

therapists.

The neuro-rehabilitation device "

G-EO-System

" was developed by an

international team of medical doctors, engineers, therapists, technicians, and

software specialists over a period of five years. These professionals recognized

early on that stroke patients and certain trauma patients require more support

than the traditional treadmills and that electronically controlled devices help

them to utilise a significantly greater potential for a speedy recovery.

The demand for technological electronic devices to support recovery-centred

therapy has increase exponentially since 2000. Product sales have already

started in industrialised countries. The awareness of these devices continues to

increase day by day. REHA Technology AG has secured the patent rights for the

"G-EO-System"

and is already taking steps to extend its distributor network.

Contact:

Benjamin Berger, Tel. [phone]

Mail to: [e-mail]