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.
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.
Hocoma
Hocoma is a Switzerland-based medical technology company that develops innovative treatments for neurological patients with 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 field 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.
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 efficient, 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 over 1,000 movements per interactive therapy session.
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.
Instead Technologies
Instead Technologies is a technology-based company aimed at helping individuals with disabilities, which is promoted by a 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.
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 filed patent applications in European union, USA, Japan and China. At the end of the same year we have started certification process according to 93/42 eec medical device directive which is mandatory for all medical device manufacturers entering European market. Our plan is to launch BiMeo in late 2014.
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 field, 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™’
Kinova
Kinova is a Canadian company engaged into the design and manufacture of innovative solutions in the field 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.
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 that allows the patient to achieve better functional recovery.
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.
Reha-Stim
Our philosophy is to develop new and scientifically 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 field of scientifically founded stroke rehabilitation to the treatment of disabilities of arm and hand.
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 capabilities of the human fingertip. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Los Angeles, SynTouch provides Machine Touch ™ – complete tactile sensing solutions for industrial, medical and military applications.
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 deficiencies.
Our advanced products include myoelectric prosthetic hand and prosthetic finger 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.
YouRehab
YouRehab’s network of academic, technology and clinical testing partners keep it at the forefront of rehabilitation technology development and practice. In a short time, it has won a number of prestigious research and business awards for its work. The team and management board of the company combine a wide range of expertise in therapy, biomedical engineering, computer science, neuroscience and manufacturing.
