Robots help to heal: G-EO-System
Modern concepts of motor learning promote intensive therapy. Intelligent devices and robots can help to support the work of the therapists and therefore intensify the therapy. Professor Stefan Hesse is one of the pioneers in this area. The gait trainer GT I, the gait training robot G-EO-System and the arm trainers Bi-manu-Track, Reha-Digit and Reha-Slide were developed in his work group. An appropriate locomotion and arm therapy studio has been set up in the Schlaganfallzentrum Berlin.
The gait training robot G-EO-System was developed together with the Fraunhofer Institut für Produktionsanlagen (Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems).
It supports and gently leads the patients in the continuous practice of walking situations. The wheelchair-bound patient is attached to a steel frame in a type of harness, their feet on plates whose trajectories can be fully programmed and imitate everyday walking situations: walking on a level, tripping, slipping or climbing up and down stairs. Reacquiring these abilities is essential for mobility in everyday life. The objective is to copy these movements as naturally as possible. As a result of artificial foot movements the slack muscles between the toes and the hips are forced into action again.
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