Table 4. Advanced overground gait training systems with body support applying the principle ‘System Follows Patient’.
System
Advantages
Disadvantages
‘Andago (Hocoma)'°7
ZeroG??-'08
Vector Gait and
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NaviGaitor®?
‘Argos (NASA)!'#!'5
Dynamic asymmetric body weight support (BW) enables
proper lateral weight shift
Allows turning, stopping, avoiding obstacles in various
daily-lfe environments
Frame smaller than classic doorframe. Hands-free
No dedicated space needed
Movement with predefined unidirectional trajectory and
overhead support system
Possibility of active free choice training with controlled
sensorized BWS
Real-time biofeedback of movements to challenge postural
control and dynamic stability
The active trolley minimizes the horizontal forces the
patient experience during gait
Possibility of climbing and overpassing obstacles
Movement with predefined unidirectional trajectory
overhead support system
Unweighting system and fall prevention
Movement with predefined unidirectional trajectory
overhead support system
Unweighting system and fall prevention
Movement with free 3D trajectory
Overhead support systems
Unweighting system and fall prevention
Movement with free 3D trajectory
Highly adjustable unweighting system
Body weight supported from behind (mast + passive pelvic
frame)
‘Active mast for body position changes
Designed for astronaut low gravity ambulation training
‘The patient can swing in the harness without
control over trunk and girdles
The personal space defined by the system is
limited and should be carefully administered
‘while moving in a given built or natural space
Enables walking on a predefined line with no
turning and no obstacle avoidance possibility
No active postural support (only fall
prevention)
No pelvic frame
Enables walking only on a predefined circuit
No active postural support only fall
prevention
No pelvic frame
Enables walking only on a predefined circuit
No active postural support only fall
prevention
No pelvic frame
Enables walking on a predefined 3D space
defined by the system, through a bridge crane
Passive pelvic frame and mast
No active postural support, only fall
prevention
Not on the market
No active pelvic frame
No active gait movements support
No feedback capabilities
No active postural support (only fall
prevention)
Not on the market
3: three-dimensional.