Clinical Development

Building Evidence Around a Real Rehabilitation Challenge

LimbAxis is being developed to address a challenge identified through lived experience and recognised by professionals working in amputee rehabilitation: how to progressively strengthen the residual limb when conventional resistance equipment has not been designed around limb loss.

The technology remains in development. Clinical insight, user experience and structured evaluation will be central to understanding where LimbAxis could provide value and how it should progress.

Why Strength Matters

Strength and conditioning can form an important part of the journey following limb loss, from rehabilitation and preparation for prosthetic use through to everyday mobility, exercise and long-term physical conditioning.

The challenge is that much conventional resistance equipment is designed around intact limbs. This can require clinicians and individuals to adapt exercises or equipment when attempting to progressively load and strengthen the muscles associated with the residual limb.

LimbAxis is being developed specifically around this challenge.

Developed With Clinical and User Input

LimbAxis began through lived experience, but its development is being informed by a much wider group.

Amputees, physiotherapists, prosthetists and rehabilitation professionals are providing insight into the challenges they encounter, how strengthening is currently approached and where purpose-built technology could potentially fit.
That feedback is helping to shape the development of LimbAxis and the questions that need to be answered through further evaluation.

The objective is not to design in isolation, but to develop alongside the people who may ultimately use, recommend or work with the technology.

Early Prototype Evaluation

Physical prototype development has allowed the LimbAxis concept to move beyond drawings and theory into early practical evaluation.

Initial work has focused on exploring fundamental questions around usability, application and the experience of applying progressive resistance during use.

Feedback from amputees and rehabilitation professionals is helping identify areas for refinement and informing the next generation of prototypes.

These early observations are being used to guide development rather than presented as evidence of clinical efficacy.

A Clinical Perspective

“The LimbAxis is a very exciting concept that could revolutionise the way we rehabilitate our lower limb injured patients. For as long as I have been working as a Physio, it has always been a compromise when attempting to effectively load the quadriceps and hamstring muscles to the resistances we need to avoid detrimental deconditioning. The LimbAxis would offer a much-needed solution that could then be a staple piece of equipment in every Physio clinic room.”

Kat Sizer
Clinical Lead and Specialist Physiotherapist in Amputee Rehabilitation

A Wider Limb-Loss Perspective

“I have been given a comprehensive overview of the design and concept for LimbAxis and, based on my experience working with our amputee veterans, I feel that this device will be a huge benefit in their rehabilitation and lifelong journey living with limb loss.”

Brian Chenier MBE
Blesma Support Officer (Prosthetics)

Building the Evidence Step by Step

Early feedback is encouraging, but the development of rehabilitation technology requires more than positive experiences.

The next stages of LimbAxis are intended to introduce more structured evaluation, allowing the technology to be assessed against clearly defined questions and development objectives.

This will include further prototype evaluation, clinician and user feedback, and opportunities to work with clinical and academic partners where appropriate.

As the evidence develops, LimbAxis Systems intends to share meaningful findings while continuing to protect the intellectual property behind the technology.

What We Need to Understand

As LimbAxis progresses, evaluation will focus on the questions that matter to the people who may eventually use and work with the technology.

These include how individuals experience the technology in use, how effectively progressive resistance can be introduced, how the concept performs across different levels of limb loss and how it could fit within existing rehabilitation and strength-conditioning environments.

The findings will help determine where further development, research and validation should be focused.

Interested in Research or Clinical Collaboration?

Building meaningful evidence requires the right expertise.

LimbAxis Systems welcomes conversations with clinicians, rehabilitation providers, universities and research teams interested in exploring residual limb strengthening, rehabilitation technology and strength and conditioning following limb loss.

We are particularly interested in relationships that can help design robust evaluation, challenge assumptions and generate evidence capable of informing future development.

Discuss Clinical Collaboration

From Evidence to Application

Clinical development is only one part of the journey.
As the evidence base grows, LimbAxis Systems intends to work with appropriate clinical, research and industry partners to understand the regulatory, technical and commercial pathway required to take the technology further.

The aim is to build that pathway on evidence rather than assumption.

Industry Partners