Website www.hocoma.com Number of employees 110 (2012) Parent organization DIH International Limited | Headquarters Volketswil Founded 1996 | |
Type Robotic rehabilitation, Medical technology Profiles | ||
Hocoma company profile english
Hocoma is a privately hold globally active medical technology company based near Zurich, Switzerland. Hocoma was founded in 1996 as spin-off of the Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, by the electrical and biomedical engineers Gery Colombo and Matthias Jörg and the economist Peter Hostettler. Today, Hocoma employs more than 110 people at its headquarters near Zurich and in its subsidiaries in Norwell, Massachusetts, Slovenia, Singapore and Chile . It develops therapy solutions for neurorehabilitation and low back pain therapy working closely with clinics and research centers. The Hocoma therapy solutions support the treatment of neurological patients with movement disorders caused by stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy or other neurological diseases and injuries as well as low back pain patients.
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About hocoma 2014
Lokomat
The Lokomat is a gait therapy device on a treadmill with a robotic gait orthosis, and exercises in a virtual reality environment with a constant audio and visual feedback. The Lokomat also provides a pediatric orthosis for driven locomotion therapy for small children. The enhanced efficiency and efficacy of locomotion training with the Lokomat has been scientifically proven in over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals. That is more than any other robotic therapy device for lower extremity rehabilitation.
In 2011, U.S. News & World Report surveyed almost 5,000 hospitals in the US and ranked them in 16 specialties. Nine out of ten hospitals ranked as the top ten in “Rehabilitation” offer gait therapy with Hocoma’s Lokomat. By the end of 2011, over 390 Lokomat devices were in clinical usages in hospitals and clinics worldwide.
Armeo Therapy Concept
The Armeo Therapy Concept includes a range of devices for upper extremity rehabilitation. All devices share the same therapy software, which allows the transfer of individual therapy settings and scores. Each of the devices of the concept was designed for a particular stage in the recovery progress:
Erigo
The Erigo is a medical device for mobilization of neurological patients in the early phase of rehabilitation. The Erigo is a verticalization table with integrated robotic stepping functions that enable simultaneous dynamic leg movement and physiological cyclic leg loading. This supports the physical health of long bed rest patients and prevents secondary complications caused by immobility. Clinical experience has shown a positive effect of the Erigo on the general alertness in vegetative state patients.
Valedo
The ValedoMotion is a medical back training device with computer based exercises. Two wireless sensors that are attached to the patient’s back transfer trunk movements into a game like environment. Exercises specifically designed for low back pain therapy enhance the patient’s motivation and thereby counteract one of the biggest problems in low back pain treatment.