Can Be Used by the Elderly and Patients With Movement Disorders at Home and in a Variety of Healthcare Settings
HAIFA, Israel, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of people in the US have diseases or conditions that affect their ability to walk. For many of them, traditional walking aids such as canes and walkers are a disappointing substitute for being able to walk normally and live independently.
Now there’s a high-tech yet easy-to-use gait-training device, the GaitAid Virtual Walker from MediGait LTD, that is bringing these people new hope for more normal walking -- and living.
GaitAid Helps Restore Normal Walking Patterns
GaitAid works two ways to achieve often-remarkable results:
A Breakthrough Device
Developed and patented by MIT-educated Yoram Baram, PhD -- Founder and CEO of MediGait LTD -- the GaitAid Virtual Walker is the only gait-trainer of its kind, combining virtual-reality programming and real-time motion detection in a simple-to-use, cell-phone-sized device.
Large US Population Could Be Helped
The GaitAid Virtual Walker is transforming the lives of many people coping with illness and aging who had thought they could never walk normally again. But these GaitAid users are only part of a much larger population of people like them, over 8 million, who could potentially be helped by the device:
The short training sessions facilitate GaitAid’s use to improve walking in institutional and rehabilitation settings as well as at home.
The GaitAid Virtual Walker is available for purchase by individuals or their caregivers as well as physicians, physical therapists, hospital rehabilitation clinics, nursing homes, and assisted-living communities who wish to offer the training as a value-added service.
About MediGait LTD and GaitAid Development:
Yoram Baram received his PhD from MIT and is a Professor of Computer Science and incumbent of the Roy Matas / Winnipeg Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. The idea for the GaitAid Virtual Walker was sparked 12 years ago while Professor Baram was designing a mechanism for NASA to navigate low-flying helicopters around obstacles. The concept of the design, which Professor Baram later applied to development of the GaitAid trainer, is that the optical images of objects help the observer navigate, stabilize, and pace movement in space.
For more information on GaitAid please visit www.medigait.com, 888-777-9906, support@medigait.com
CONTACT: Audrey Holmes-Baram, Public Relations Director of MediGait LTD,
+1-888-777-9906
Web site: http://www.medigait.com/
