Offtext: Robots have long moved beyond routine tasks. At MEDICA, exhibitors show how robotics can help patients recover after a stroke or injuries.
Bernardo Noronha: Robotics is able to now bring rehab to places where it hasn't been really done before. So for example, with systems like ours, you can actually deliver very high-quality rehab, even at home. So as a patient, you don't have to go through the hassle of leaving your home, get into public transport, sorting out other types of arrangements.
Offtext: Home-based rehabilitation can make a real difference for patients with limited mobility. But robotics is not just about convenience. It's about adapting therapy to each individual patient in real time.
Bernardo Noronha: So, for example, if you are not doing very well, if you really need a lot of help and assistance, the system is able to, in real time, detect that, and without any pressing of buttons, without any therapist intervention, it automatically adjusts to you.
Offtext: Personalized support is one part of the equation. The other is efficiency, because in many clinics, therapy time is limited.
Matt Rigby: Primarily, robotics are allowing clinicians or therapists to get more out of each session that they do with a patient. So specifically, we're able to get more repetitions. Repetitions and mass practice leads to better outcomes. And then also robotics are allowing therapists to engage a patient more cognitively with the software and then get more movement initially when they're either paralyzed or very weak. So our system allows the therapist to set the patient up sooner or quicker in the session, so they don't lose treatment time.
Offtext: At MEDICA, robotics is proving that rehabilitation can be more efficient, without losing the human element.
