Introducing: The Tibion Bionic Leg

The Tibion Bionic Leg is the first wearable, battery operated, robotic rehabilitation tool to provide stroke patients with the possibility of regaining significant use of their impaired leg.

The Bionic Leg provides patients with the assistance they need to be able to participate more actively in the standard sit-to-stand, overground walking and stair-climbing exercises that are critical to recovery of gait and balance following stroke. That translates into

• More sit-to-stand exercises per session, without dependence on the unaffected arm and leg
• More overground steps per session, with little or no therapist support
• More repetition of stair-climbing with both legs per session – not “step with the good leg, drag up the other”
• Increased potential for “neuroplasticity” – the effort/repetition dependent “re-wiring” of the brain shown to be essential to each patient’s reaching their optimum degree of rehabilitation.

The Bionic Leg is not a prosthesis (artificial limb), or a device a stroke patient would wear indefinitely. It is a robotic aid worn during therapy sessions over weeks or months, until the patient recovers their gait so they can walk – and continue to improve – without it.