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Top 15 Rehabilitation Robotics Companies

By Technavio December 11, 2014

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The Global Rehabilitation Robotics market is highly competitive with the presence of numerous global and
regional players offering a wide variety of robotic therapies depending on their medical application. Vendors
in developed markets are focusing on product innovations and extending product line strategies.

This healthy market competition is a big reason why the Global Rehabilitation Robotics market is expected to
grow at a CAGR of 24.27 percent during the 2014-2019 period.

TechNavio has pegged the top 15 companies in rehab robotics that are expected to help fuel market growth
during the forecast period:

AlterG Inc.

AlterG is an American medical device company

that makes products for athletic training and
physical therapy. The products of the company
are used to reduce injury, shorten recovery
time, and improve mobility. Its product line,
anti-gravity treadmills and bionic legs, both use
patented technologies. In 2013, the company
launched another anti-gravity treadmill model,
the F320, which enables practitioners to
develop new services and revenue streams by
shortening recovery time and reducing
damage.
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Ekso Bionics

Ekso Bionics develops products that allow a

wheelchair user to stand and walk. The
company’s GT robotic exoskeleton provides
gait training and neurorehabilitation by
extending the individual’s strength and also
helps the therapist to work with their patients.
It helps patients suffering from spinal cord
injuries, strokes, and other forms of lower
extremity weakness to walk again. In other
words, it helps completely paralyzed people
and those with minimal forearm strength to
stand and walk.

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Hocoma

Hocoma is a Switzerland-based medical

technology company that develops innovative
treatments for neurological patients with

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movement disorders caused by spinal cord

injuries, strokes, multiple sclerosis, traumatic
brain injuries, or Parkinson’s disease. With the
Valedo, the company has entered into the eld
of low back pain therapy. The ValedoShape is a
spine evaluation device that enables computer-
assisted analysis and display of the spine’s
shape and mobility. In addition, the new
LokomatPro provides robotic gait orthosis in
which the patient’s legs are guided to a pre-
programmed physiological gait pattern on the
treadmill.

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Interactive Motion Technologies

Interactive Motion Technologies provides

robotic tools for neurorehabilitation
professionals. The company’s aim is to
improve the quality of life of patients.
Evidence-based neurorehabilitation technology
helps clinicians deliver e cient, personalized,
and intensive sensorimotor therapies to
neurologic patients. In addition, its evidence-
based treatment protocols ensure that patients
are continuously engaged and able to perform
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over 1,000 movements per interactive therapy

session.

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Bioxtreme Robotics Rehabilitation

Bioxtreme is a company that specializes in

robotics rehabilitation innovative Error
Enhancement treatment for patients suffering
from cerebral stroke or traumatic brain injuries
(TBI). Over 30 Million cases are reported
throughout the world every year. The traditional
rehabilitation treatment, as well as innovative
treatments, often fail to provide an effective
solution, as a result, Millions of people every
year, continue to live with mobility limitations.

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Instead Technologies

Instead Technologies is a technology-based

company aimed at helping individuals with
disabilities, which is promoted by a

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multidisciplinary team of the Miguel

Hernández University (Spain). Our approach to
meet the unique needs of patients with severe
disabilities is based on new solutions to assist
the recovery from a nervous system injury,
always keeping the patient at the center of the
team.

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Kinestica

Kinestica company was founded in the early

2012. Our mission: to bring this amazing
technology to the market and help patients
with neuromotoric disorders to improve quality
of their lives. Kinestica acquired all intellectual
property rights for the invention of the BiMeo
system in late 2012 and won several awards
for the development of innovative products
throughout 2012 and 2013.

In 2013 Kinestica has led patent applications

in European union, USA, Japan and China. At
the end of the same year we have started
certi cation process according to 93/42 eec
medical device directive which is mandatory
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for all medical device manufacturers entering

European market. Our plan is to launch BiMeo
in late 2014.

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Kinetic Muscles

For over a decade, Kinetic Muscles has worked

to address the unmet rehabilitation needs of
patients suffering from stroke, traumatic brain
injury (TBI), multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy,
and incomplete spinal cord injury. As a pioneer
and thought leader in the eld, Kinetic Muscles
is merging digital gaming , robotic, and
telemedicine technologies with the most up-to-
date discoveries in neurorehabilitation science
to provide solutions that are practical and
clinically effective. The mission of our long-
term commitment is ‘Improved Outcomes for
More Patients at Lower Cost™’

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Kinova

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Kinova is a Canadian company engaged into

the design and manufacture of innovative
solutions in the eld of personal robotics. The
team of experts at Kinova is dedicated to offer
practical robotic platforms solving real and
concrete problematic of daily life, especially in
rehabilitation.

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MediTouch

MediTouch Ltd. manufactures innovative

physical therapy solutions for hospital, primary
and home care use. The products utilize
wearable motion capture devices and
dedicated rehabilitation software. The
MediTouch physical therapy solutions allow
patients with upper and/or lower extremity
movement dysfunction to practice intensive
virtual functional task training of single and
multi joints. In this way our systems implement
impairment oriented training (IOT) with
augmented motion feedback to give a tailored
arm or leg exercise physical therapy program

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that allows the patient to achieve better

functional recovery.

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Rehab-Robotics

Rehab-Robotics Co. Ltd. is committed to

advance technologies in rehabilitation
profession to help patients achieve maximum
recovery outcome. We dedicate to provide
integration of robotics into your training
activities of daily living, continuous education
and professional support.

In partnership with the Hong Kong Polytechnic

University and rehabilitation experts in Hong
Kong, we create, develop and promote the
fusion cutting edge technology with advance
muscle re-education concepts to improve
motor recovery.

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Reha-Stim

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Our philosophy is to develop new and

scienti cally well-founded methods for device-
based rehabilitation. We want to support you in
restoring and improving your patients’ gait
function after lesions of the central nervous
system. Therefore, we follow a simple yet well-
proven motto: Who wants to relearn walking
has to walk.

Today we are able to successfully transfer the

experience and progress that we have made in
the eld of scienti cally founded stroke
rehabilitation to the treatment of disabilities of
arm and hand.

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SynTouch

SynTouch LLC developed and makes the only

sensor technology in the world that endows
robots with the ability to replicate – and
sometimes exceed – the human sense of
touch. Its lead product – the BioTac – mimics
the physical properties and sensory
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capabilities of the human ngertip. Founded in

2008 and headquartered in Los Angeles,
SynTouch provides Machine Touch ™ –
complete tactile sensing solutions for
industrial, medical and military applications.

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Touch Bionics

Touch Bionics is a provider of world-leading

prosthetic technologies and supporting
services designed to ensure the best possible
outcomes for people with upper limb
de ciencies.

Our advanced products include myoelectric

prosthetic hand and prosthetic nger
solutions, as well as highly realistic passive
silicone prostheses that match the natural
appearance of the wearer.

We are committed to helping ensure that our

patients and customers have the best possible
experience with our products by supporting
them with training and a full range of clinical
services.
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