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Advanced E-Team Grant Profile

The NUberwalker: Low Cost Body Weight Supported Treadmill Training System
Northwestern University, 2005
$15,500.00

This E-Team has developed the NUberwalker, a Body Weight Support Treadmill Training (BWSTT) system that helps with the physical rehabilitation of stroke and spinal cord injury patients. The NUberwalker consists of a triangular frame that arches over the treadmill like a swing set, bungee cords, and a harness. Once the user is strapped into the harness, he or she presses a button to tension the bungee cords to the desired level of support, and starts the treadmill.

BSWTT systems exist in rehabilitation centers at hospitals, but are large, complex and expensive. The team reasons that an in-home BSWTT system allows for more frequent training between physical therapy sessions, as well as ongoing in-home training following the completion of physical therapy, improving patient recovery time. .

Key Faculty

Professor J. Edward Colgate, Advisor, Mechanical Engineering Dept.

Associate Research Director Derek Kamper, Advisor,

Director Susan Ross, Advisor, Office for Sponsored Research (Evanston)

Research Assistant Professor George Hornby, Advisor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Research Director Zev Rymer, Advisor,

Professor and Chairman Brian Moran, Advisor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Chairman Elliot Roth, Advisor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Invention & Patent Coordinator Beverly R. Milligan, Advisor, Technology Transfer Program

     

 

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