MyoPro (the orthosis for hands)

2018: The beginning of sales of the orthosis of hands for children

At the beginning of November, 2018 the Myomo company put on the market the robotic orthosis of hands for children and teenagers under the name MyoPro. The device helps patients with diseases or injuries which lead to partial or complete paralysis of hands.

MyoPro is a powerful orthosis of an upper extremity which perceives the signals going to muscles of patients via noninvasive sensors on a hand. The orthosis supports a hand and recovers the movement at patients with an injury of a spinal cord or such diseases as a stroke or a side amyotrophic sclerosis.

The children's orthosis for MyoPro hands

The first patient with the orthosis, Zeke Dees, had an accident when he was only 8 years old. The combined injury of a head and spinal cord and also damage of a shoulder texture because of what his left hand was completely paralyzed became result.

Specialists note that poorly what noninvasive interventions can be compared to MyoPro concerning injuries of a shoulder texture. When using MyoPro at patients the range of available movements, percent of spontaneous use and improvement of function of the involved upper extremity, despite paralysis increases. This device allows patients to find a certain degree of independence which changes their outlook on life.

The companies which are engaged in robotic medical orthoses first of all are focused on adults. Partially it is connected with the tough normative environment, partially with requirements of the market. Robotic orthoses are rather expensive, and not each parent will decide on purchase of the equipment from which the child, most likely, will grow up soon. As a result most the companies are guided by broader spectrum of adult patients. Myomo decided to change this paradigm.

MyoPro orthoses are already available in several rehabilitation centers, such as Easterseals, Shriner's Hospitalitals and children's hospitals of Boston and Cincinnati.^[1]

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