Deans' stroke musings: Andago walks away with an IF Design Award

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Andago walks away with an IF Design Award - walking frame

Might be great for rehab centers, can't see any possibility for outpatient use. Research should be able to determine the efficacy of graduating from this to unsupported walking, but that won't occur. My partial body weight supported walking did not work because I needed full weight on my legs in order to counteract the spasticity.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/andago-walks-away-design-award-mike-fuhrmann?trk=pulse_spock-articles

The video on the site misses the fact that this frame doesn't have a coffee holder.

This is really a good start into 2016.
IF International Forum Design GmbH is one of the oldest truly independent design institutions in the world and has been around since 1953 to identify, support and promote good design, to raise awareness of design among the public and to effect social change through design. This is the mission of the annual design competition, IF Design Award.
Frankly, I am really thrilled we won this award for our latest innovation Andago. An award like this is a wonderful opportunity to announce that Andago is now on its way to training floors in modern rehabilitation centers around the world. It’s amazing how many requests we are receiving since we presented our prototype on a handful selected events in 2015.
It also shows how much innovation power Hocoma has built up over the last years to really develop new disruptive robotic devices that have the power to shape and redefine modern and effective rehabiliation in future.
Worldwide, US-based MossRehab was the first rehabilitation facility to pilot therapy with the Andago.

“It’s guided by your own walking,” said Alberto Esquenazi, MD, MossRehab's chief medical officer explains. “The Andago will enable patients who’ve had a stroke or a traumatic brain injury to move more quickly from supported or assisted gait to unsupported walking".
A great opportunity to experience Adago will be the 9th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation (WCNR) that takes place in Philadelphia from May 10th to 13th, 2016.
We also just opened our registrations for a guided visit to MossRehab, Philadelphia’s largest provider of physical medicine and rehabilitation, on May 11th, 2016, to see and experience first-hand their state-of-the-art rehabilitation therapy.
This special visit also includes lectures by some of the greatest experts in the field: MossRehab’s own Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Albert Esquenazi, and Prof. Dr. Leopold Saltuari, Head of Department of Neurology in Hochzirl, Austria, on the topic of Efficient Integration of New Technology into Clinical Practice in Rehabilitation.
So, grab your chance now to feel innovation first-hand as seats are limited.
Let's shape a better rehabilitation world in future.