{"id":45844,"date":"2016-10-24T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=45844"},"modified":"2016-10-25T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T06:26:16","slug":"45844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/45844","title":{"rendered":"Light-weight, walking assistance apparatus RE-Gait\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fsci\/gips\/other-en\/2016\/03\/29\/5670\/\">Professor Eiichiro Tanaka<\/a> from Waseda\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fsci\/gips\/en\/\">Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/yugelab\/\">Professor Louis Yuge<\/a> from Hiroshima University\u2019s Graduate School of Biomedical &amp; Health Sciences, and Yumi Kawahara, President of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacebio-lab.com\/03development\/index-en.html\">the Space Bio Laboratories Co., Ltd.,<\/a> collaborated to develop a light-weight, walking assistance apparatus,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-gait.com\/\"> &#8220;RE-Gait\u00ae.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161004_fig1.png\" alt=\"20161004_fig1\" width=\"852\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161004_fig1.png 852w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161004_fig1-610x282.png 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161004_fig1-768x355.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Japan has faced problems in an aging society, and mobility aid has been drawing much attention in the fields of medicine and supportive care provided in homes\/nursing care facilities. Furthermore, despite the high risk of stumbling and falling from walking by patients recovering from a stroke, many of these patients are often times discharged from hospitals even when they still have difficulties and must recuperate at home. After 8 years of trial and error,\u00a0RE-Gait\u00ae was developed to help the elderly and such patients.<\/p>\n<p>The most outstanding feature of RE-Gait\u00ae is that it can raise a person&#8217;s leg by only supporting their ankle joints. The apparatus only weighs 1kg and is easy-to-use.\u00a0 Starting October 17, RE-Gait\u00ae will be sold to medical and welfare facilities by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.origin-inc.jp\/\"> Origin Inc.,<\/a> a company specializing in nursing care management and sales in medical\/assistive care technology devices. RE-Gait\u00ae was also displayed at the Space Bio Laboratories booth in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics-expo.jp\/biojapan\/main\/\">BioJapan 2016,<\/a> a global biotechnology industry event, held on October 12 &#8211; 14 in Yokohama this year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45312\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45312 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161004_fig2.png\" alt=\"\u30bf\u30d6\u30ec\u30c3\u30c8\u753b\u9762\u306e\u30a4\u30e1\u30fc\u30b8\u56f3\" width=\"568\" height=\"347\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of the tablet screen storing gait data<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Eiichiro Tanaka from Waseda\u2019s Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Professor Loui [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-45844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}