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Lokomat (Hocoma)

The Lokomat is a treadmill-based robotic gait orthosis that combines body-weight support with driven hip and knee trajectories to facilitate intensive stepping practice.

Lokomat (Hocoma) image provided in the NPA database

Overview

What It Is The Lokomat is a treadmill-based robotic gait orthosis that combines body-weight support with driven hip and knee trajectories to facilitate intensive stepping practice.

How It Works Guided, high-repetition gait patterns with adjustable assistance enable mass practice of walking movements when overground walking is limited—supporting intensity-driven motor learning.

Conditions - Stroke, SCI, TBI, and other neurologic gait impairments in clinical rehab settings

How it is administered

Clinic sessions in a rehab facility equipped with Lokomat; therapist-supervised.

The NPA Treatment Database lists this treatment in connection with 3 condition records. A database relationship does not establish effectiveness, safety, or suitability for an individual.

These controlled question pages reference this treatment through stored condition relationships.

Symptoms connected in the NPA database

The current record associates this treatment with the following symptom information. This is not a claim that the treatment will improve these symptoms.

Motor Control

  • Balance and coordination problems
  • difficulty walking
  • muscle stiffness/spasticity
  • Muscle weakness
  • One-sided weakness or paralysis
  • poor balance and coordination
  • reduced fine motor skills
  • slowed movements
  • stiffness/spasms
  • walking difficulty
  • weakness

Practical information

Insurance coverage

Often part of facility-based rehab billing when criteria are met.

Cost information

Institutional therapy costs; not a home consumer device.

Results and outcomes described in the source record

Reassessed over a block of gait-training sessions (weeks).

Side effects and risks

Skin irritation, fatigue; medical clearance required.

Research context in the NPA database

This section reproduces the current database's research summary and detail. Structured citation metadata has not been supplied, so it should not be read as an independently verified literature review.

Research summary

Evidence Level: Moderate Key takeaway: One of the most established treadmill-based robotic gait systems in neurorehab.

Research detail

Overview Lokomat provides robot-assisted treadmill gait training with body-weight support for neurologic populations.

Outcomes Used to increase stepping dose and support gait recovery goals in inpatient and outpatient rehab.

Questions to ask a provider

1. Is Lokomat available at my rehab center? 2. How many sessions are planned? 3. How does this fit with overground therapy? 4. Coverage? 5. What are the medical requirements to participate?

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