TECHNOLOGIES COMPARISON

In comparison to the domestic and foreign analogues offered, these devices are multipurpose, can be easily transformed and tuned for the increaseof physical abilities of the user when he(she) perform any kind of usual activity which are related to movement.. It is provided due to regulation unloading, or workloading of the musculoskeletal (locomotor) system and also of its parts and achieved:

• A forced stretching (jamming) of the appropriate segments of a body (a trunk, extremities) by means of exoskeleton’s elements;
• Holding/increasing a body weight during basic locomotion moments;
• Reduction/increase of workloads of muscles, joins, etc. during some locomotive actions;
• The ability to fasten exoskeleton outside/inside of clothes (special suits, survival suits) and footwear.

For this purposes a body and extremities of the user with the certain degree of the rigidity (which set by elements of fastening), attached to exoskeleton’s joints with levers (splints) of the exoskeleton’s skeleton. Preliminary, the required linear sizes of a skeleton and fastening elements (splints, cuffs, braces) are established. The angular moving direction, size, resistance, including forced ones, etc are set. Exoskeleton is realized so it’s application independent from the state of musculoskeletal (locomotor) system of the user (in norm; with pathology), and also from the application conditions (inside building, in the street, including extreme situations). Exoskeletons are certificated by national Ministries of Health, state standards, they are protected by many patents on invention in Ukraine and Russia, and they are the winners of numerous national and international exhibitions.