Innovation meets Neurorehab with EksoUE

“EksoNR is the most advanced neuro-rehabilitative exoskeleton available and provides benefits to the largest number of patients recovering from a stroke, spinal cord injury, or acquired brain injury. At Shirley Ryan, we have studied Ekso since the inception and now also use it clinically in our inpatient and outpatient programs.”

“Ekso helps us get patients up, out of bed, and ambulatory as soon as possible.”

“This equipment enables me and the therapy team to give patients more of a chance to live a better quality of life and reduce their long term disability.”

“We went from taking 20 steps with three physical therapists to taking hundreds of steps in a session with one.”

“From my own experience, either therapists are physically carrying these patients across the gym at great expense to their own bodies or they’re just not able to mobilize these patients; so many of our patients are very weak and the therapists absorb much because of the burden. The therapists I work with are now able to do so much more using Ekso.”

“To take my hands off of a patient and allow them to be a little bit more functional without me, it’s giving them empowerment.”

“Our reason for choosing to purchase Ekso specifically was to meet the need of being a leader in NeuroRehab in central Ohio. Ekso presented a value proposition to our neurorehab program with a ROI of reducing length of stay, increasing patient satisfaction, and improving outcomes.”

Ekso, if qualified, is a more efficient intervention than the body-weight supported treadmill that we do for ABI patients. In terms of logistical manpower, the control of the quality of the gait pattern and repetition for motor relearning. I do think that Ekso is a good intervention for early mobilization, tapping into neuroplasticity expediently and more successfully.

“We’re finding that patients are progressing far beyond what we’ve ever been able to get them to because we have this means to get people up earlier.”

The decision for the Ekso was not difficult for me due to the clinical evidence. We already had the first AHA effects during the introduction of the device. Patients showed significant progress and mobilization within a short period of time and this was a decisive experience for me which has contributed immensely to the decision for the Ekso.

“You can change the parameters within Ekso allowing for more, less, or no resistance… it is revolutionary.”

We have the opportunity to have under control the fine-tuning of the Ekso system and the body of the patient at the same time because we are able to change the power that you are using, to change the velocity that you would like to use, the step length. We like that we have a lot of improvements using Ekso to perform gait training.