Gait Training with a Driven Gait Orthosis – Comparison between Lokomat and Treadmill Therapy

Rehabilitation approaches for impairments in motor function of neurologically impaired patients like stroke victims rely heavily on physiotherapy. After the introduction of treadmill training for paraplegia, there has grown a body of experience in the use of treadmill training for hemiplegia as well. Since exercising with stroke patients or paraplegic patients on the treadmill is a very demanding task for therapists, new robotic devices have been developed to assist and even increase the effect of training sessions. We report our experience and results of first recordings with the Lokomat, a PC-controlled and dr…