C-Brace is changing lives one step at a time.
Live the life you deserve with the C-Brace.
What is the C-Brace and who can benefit from it?
The C-Brace is a microprocessor-controlled leg Knee-Ankle-Foot-Orthosis (KAFO) that responds to everyday movements and situations in real-time. This helps to ensure safety, stability, and confidence in your everyday life. The C-Brace allows users with leg paralysis to walk on uneven terrain, safely walk backward, and go down stairs and slopes step over step. C-Brace users can enjoy activities with their friends and family in a completely new way. People with neurological indications of the lower limbs can benefit from the C-Brace. The leading indication is incomplete spinal cord injury (between L1 and L5) with very minor to no spasticity, as well as post-polio syndrome, a condition that can follow polio.
How does the C-Brace work?
The C-Brace consists of individually fabricated thigh, calf, and foot components. An ankle joint connects the foot and calf components. Through the use of sensors, the C-Brace knows where it is in space and how fast you are walking, meaning it can alter the hydraulics as well as controlling the flexion and extension accordingly.
Why try the C-Brace?
Safety
Compared to a conventional leg brace, C-Brace allows you to walk hands-free, giving you the freedom to hold a loved one’s hand and carry a child.
C-Brace Success Stories.
Find out more about the features and benefits of the C-Brace.
The C-Brace offers users new possibilities with its advanced microprocessor sensor technology. It allows for smooth movement while sitting, navigating slopes, walking on uneven surfaces, or descending stairs step by step, providing an entirely new level of mobility. Click below to learn more about the features and benefits in more detail.
C-Brace Interim.
The C-Brace Interim is a KAFO designed to support patients during the early stages of rehabilitation, helping them begin practising upright standing and walking as soon as they are ready. Suitable users can wear the orthosis for up to six months, providing a solution that remains available outside of therapy sessions and enables more frequent practice and increased walking activity. It can be used once the patient has sufficient trunk stability and is able to stand with stabilised knee joints, for example, using parallel bars. As rehabilitation progresses, the C-Brace Interim can provide a pathway towards being fitted with the C-Brace definitive orthosis or can be converted into an AFO, depending on the patient’s individual needs and progress.
Because every day counts.
Peggy lived for adventures on two wheels – until a serious accident changed everything. She was diagnosed with an incomplete spinal cord injury, but giving up was never an option. With a new interim orthotic concept from Ottobock, unwavering determination and the support of those around her, Peggy fought her way back, step by step, towards a more independent life. Her story is one of courage, resilience and the determination to keep moving forward.
