Pressing ahead with rehab revolution
The AMRC has helped a Sheffield SME transform healthcare by making a rehabilitation innovation 11% lighter and cutting the cost of manufacturing for three components by a combined 73%.
The AMRC has helped a Sheffield SME transform healthcare by making a rehabilitation innovation 11% lighter and cutting the cost of manufacturing for three components by a combined 73%.
JT Rehab’s S-Press is like nothing else currently available on hospital wards; using a spring and pulley system, it strengthens leg muscles for those stuck in bed through progressing resistance. However, a prototype was expensive to manufacture and, at nine kilograms, too heavy for physios to carry. Enter the AMRC’s design engineers, who conducted a design review of the manufacturing routes of the high-value components, provided alternatives to the manufacturing processes used and suggested potential improvements.
A revolution in the rehabilitation of hospital patients has moved a step closer thanks to this design intervention from the AMRC.
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