Our story
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Built From Lived Experience
After losing his leg in 2021, RAF veteran and mechanical engineer Rich Davies experienced first-hand the challenges of rebuilding strength following limb loss.
Rehabilitation got him back on his feet, but as his strength and ambitions progressed, he encountered a problem: much of the resistance equipment available had been designed around intact limbs, making it difficult to progressively train the residual limb in the same way.
For Rich, it became an engineering problem worth solving.
His experience extends well beyond initial rehabilitation. After competing at the Invictus Games, Rich went on to become a GB para archer and continues to train towards his ambition of competing at the Paralympic Games. Through every stage, from rehabilitation to high-performance sport, strength and conditioning have remained an important part of his journey.
That experience became the starting point for LimbAxis Systems.
Combining lived experience with an engineering background, Rich began developing a purpose-built approach to residual limb strengthening rather than continuing to adapt equipment designed for intact limbs.
Today, LimbAxis Systems is developing a patent-pending range of rehabilitation technology for people with limb loss and limb difference, with applications spanning rehabilitation, prosthetic readiness and long-term strength and conditioning.
What began with one person's experience is now being shaped by input from amputees, physiotherapists, prosthetists and rehabilitation professionals.
The aim is straightforward: to build useful technology around a challenge that Rich knows first-hand.
A Problem Worth Solving
What began as a personal frustration highlighted a wider challenge.
Conventional strength and resistance equipment is largely designed around intact limbs. For people with limb loss, that can mean adapting exercises, equipment or training methods when trying to progressively strengthen the residual limb.
LimbAxis was created to explore a different approach: technology designed specifically around the needs of people with limb loss and limb difference.
The focus is not on replacing prosthetics, but on supporting the strength and conditioning journey around them.
Lived Experience Started It. Others Are Shaping It.
Rich's experience identified the problem, but LimbAxis is being developed for a much wider community.
Input from amputees, physiotherapists, prosthetists and rehabilitation professionals is helping to shape the technology, challenge assumptions and identify where it could provide the greatest value.
That approach is central to LimbAxis: listen to the people who live with limb loss, learn from those who support them and build the evidence needed to guide what comes next.
From Rehabilitation to Long-Term Strength
The need to build strength doesn't end when a prosthesis is fitted.
LimbAxis is being developed with the wider limb-loss journey in mind - from rehabilitation and prosthetic readiness through to independent exercise and long-term strength and conditioning.
The Motion Series extends that thinking across four applications, covering upper and lower-limb loss both above and below the joint.
One purpose connects them all: creating better opportunities for people with limb loss to build and maintain strength.
Building the Evidence
LimbAxis has progressed from an engineering concept to patent-pending technology and physical prototype development.
Early evaluation and feedback are helping to inform the next stage, with further prototype development and structured testing intended to build the evidence needed for future clinical and commercial decisions.
The intellectual property behind LimbAxis is patent pending, with the patent application submitted and managed by Bryers Intellectual Property Ltd.
The focus now is on continuing to develop, test and learn - building the evidence around the technology one stage at a time.
Recognised for Innovation
In 2026, Rich was named Innovator of the Year at the British Forces in Business Awards, recognising the thinking and personal experience behind the development of LimbAxis.
For LimbAxis, recognition is an important milestone. The bigger objective remains building the technology, evidence and partnerships needed to take the concept further.
What Comes Next
The next chapter for LimbAxis is about collaboration.
As development progresses, LimbAxis Systems is looking to work with people and organisations across rehabilitation, prosthetics, research, MedTech and product development to strengthen the evidence and explore the technology's wider potential.
The ambition is to take a problem identified through lived experience and develop it into technology that can ultimately reach the people who could benefit from it.