The 2016 study has 774 pages, 296 tables and
figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the rehabilitation
robots, active prostheses, and exoskeletons are used inside rehabilitation
treatment centers and sports facilities providing rehabilitation for all
patients with injuries or physical dysfunction.
Research has found that by actively engaging stroke
patients in repetitive tasks, the brain is able to rewire neurological pathways
to motor functions. In this manner patients who have lost functions are able to
relearn movement. The awareness and movement of hemi-paretic limbs can occur
and functional recovery can continue even years after the brain injury. Much of
the damage to a brain comes from lack of oxygen, even brief lack of oxygen is
detrimental to the brain. The ability to recover is an ongoing process,
something that robotic therapy over time will help.
Now, the reimbursement times for physical therapy
are limited, and clinicians tell patients that everything that can be done has
been done after a relatively short time. Robotic rehabilitation can continue
after services are no longer paid for, giving people longer recovery times and
more hope to regain lost function.
Robotic rehabilitation devices are based on
automated process, use of a motor or use of microprocessor technology
controlled by software. Rehabilitation robot vendors have set out to create
repetitive process that works to help people improve their physical wellbeing
using a robot, to improve more than they would without the robot. Improvements
come because of a reduction in the cost of care delivery, making the
rehabilitation more affordable and therefore able to be continued longer, or
because of a reduction in boredom.
Lack of knowledge about what protocols would work
for a particular patient in a particular situation contributes to lack of
rehabilitation benefit and patients stuck without optimum movement.
Rehabilitation robots can be customized to create automated process that is
responsive to patient needs.
Robotic rehabilitation devices use automated
process to motivate patients and help them to improve their motor abilities.
Motors are used to drive continuous motion machines to build muscle tone.
Advances in robotics and bionics help therapists diagnose more precisely,
increase clinic efficiencies, and reach more patients. Robotic physical therapy
technologies improve patient engagement and HEP compliance. All better patient
experience in turn leads to improved outcomes.
Because of the longer treatment cycle with
rehabilitation robotics and extra motivation provided from incremental
improvement, people get better than they might have otherwise.
Devices precisely record the patient performance
during the training. Metrics gathered can be used to analyze and document the
therapy progress. Graphical presentation of information about improvement can
be used to further motivate patients to use the robotic devices for even more
rehabilitation.
Relearning of lost functions in a patient depends
on stimulation of desire to conquer the disability. The rehabilitation robots
can show patients progress and keep the progress occurring, encouraging
patients to work on getting healthier. Independent functioning of patients
depends on intensity of treatment, task-specific exercises, active initiation
of movements and motivation and feedback. Rehabilitation robots can assist with
these tasks in multiple ways. Creating a gaming aspect to the rehabilitation
process has brought a significant improvement in systems.
As patients get stronger and more coordinated, a
therapist can program the robot to let them bear more weight and move more
freely in different directions, walking, kicking a ball, or even lunging to the
side to catch one. The robot can follow the patient’s lead as effortlessly as a
ballroom dancer, its presence nearly undetectable until it senses the patient
starting to drop and quickly stops a fall. In the later stages of physical
therapy, the robot can nudge patients off balance to help them learn to
recover.
According to Susan Eustis, principal author of the
team that developed the market research study, “Robotic therapy stimulus of
upper limbs provides an example of the excellent motor recovery after stroke
that can be achieved using rehabilitation robots.” Lower limb systems and
exoskeleton systems provide wheelchair bound patients the ability to get out of
a wheelchair No company dominates the entire rehabilitation robot market
sector.
The products that work are still emerging as
commercial devices. All the products that are now commercially viable are
positioned to achieve significant staying power in the market long term,
providing those companies that offer them with a possibility for long term
leadership position in the market.
The companies you would expect to see as
participating in these markets, the leaders in the wheelchair markets re not
there with any significant presence. The exoskeletons will challenge the wheel
chairs, providing a supplement to the wheelchair, permitting disabled people to
have some more mobility than they have now.
Robotic rehabilitation equipment is mostly used in
rehabilitation clinical facilities. There is a huge opportunity for launching a
homecare equipment market if it is done through sports clubs rather than
through clinical facilities. People expect insurance to pay for medical
equipment but are willing to spend bundles on sports trainer equipment for the
home. Rehabilitation robots can help stroke patients years after an event, so
it makes a difference if someone keeps working to improve their functioning.
Vendors will very likely have to develop a strong
rehabilitation robotic market presence as these devices evolve a homecare
aspect. The expense of nursing home rehabilitation has been very high, limiting
the use of rehabilitation to a few weeks or months at the most.
Rehabilitation robots realistically extend the use
of automated process for rehabilitation in the home. The availability of
affordable devices that improve mobility is not likely to go unnoticed by the
sports clubs and the baby boomer generation, now entering the over 65 age group
and seeking to maintain lifestyle.
As clinicians realize that more gains can be made
by using rehabilitation robots in the home, the pace of vendor acquisitions
will likely pick up in an effort to consolidate the industry.
Rehabilitation robot market size at $221.4 million
in 2015 is expected grow dramatically to reach $1.1 billion by 2022.
Exoskeleton markets will be separate and additive to this market. A separate
exoskeleton market will create more growth. Market growth is a result of the
effectiveness of robotic treatment of muscle difficulty. The usefulness of the
rehabilitation robots is increasing. Doing more sophisticated combinations of
exercise have become more feasible as the technology evolves. Patients
generally practice 1,000 varied movements per session. With the robots, more
sessions are possible.
Spanning over 773 pages “Rehabilitation
Robots: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2016 to 2022” report covers Rehabilitation
Robot Executive Summary, Rehabilitation Robot Market Description and Market
Dynamics, Rehabilitation Robot Market Shares and Market Forecasts,
Rehabilitation Robots, Active Prostheses, and Exoskeleton Products,
Rehabilitation Robots Technology, Rehabilitation Robot Company Profiles. This
report Covered Many Companies few are - AlterG, InMotion Robots Hocoma, Ekso
Bionics, Chatanoonga, Myomo, Hocoma, Patterson, BioNik / Interactive Motion
Technologies (IMT), Berkley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory, Biodex,
Bioness, Catholic University of America.
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