Armeo®Boom - Features & Functions
The ArmeoBoom is based on an overhead sling suspension system with low inertia to provide an adjustable amount of Arm Weight Support and has the following features:
- Large 3D workspace – allows full range of arm motion
- Arm Weight Support system with low inertia - facilitates functional movements
- Arm Weight Support for wrist and elbow independently adjustable to the patients’ needs
- Fast and easy set up – can be used for right and left handed application
- Lightweight and compact, easy to transport and stow away
Augmented Performance Feedback
Once adjusted, the ArmeoBoom can be operated easily by the patient and the Armeocontrol software contains the same extensive library of game-like exercises utilized by the other products in the Armeo Therapy Concept.
For the ArmeoBoom, the reach and retrieval exercises have an adjustable workspace:
- 3-D movements
- Frontal plane
- Horizontal plane
Scientific results
Arm weight support facilitates active arm movement without impairing motor control or changing coordination patterns. It may therefore be a valuable way of increasing the intensity of training for mildly to moderately impaired patients.
Clinical benefits
Clinical evaluation of self-directed movement therapy in a group of chronic stroke patients, utilizing the ArmeoBoom with its overhead sling-based arm weight support, resulted in:
• improved motor ability
• significant improvement of the active range of motion (see graph on the right side)
Significant improvement of the active range of motion after 9 hours of training (6 weeks, 3 times 30 minutes) in the ArmeoBoom prototype. Stroke patient example, modified from Stienen, A. H. (2009)
Comparison of the three Armeo products
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