Patent ID: 8597162

Claim:
A mobility assistance apparatus comprising: a frame assembly including a plurality of vertical members, horizontal members, and joints, where the frame assembly forms a three-sided enclosure or a four-sided enclosure, a locomotion assembly disposed on bottom ends of some or all of the vertical members of the frame assembly, a forearm support assembly including two forearm support units mounted on two upper horizontal members of the frame assembly, where the units are adapted to fix a user's elbows at an angle of about 90° to the vertical and distribute a user's weight over the two forearm units, and a kinematic feedback assembly mounted on one of the horizontal members, wherein the kinematic feedback assembly includes a feedback unit, a plurality of sensors and wires for connecting the sensors to the feedback unit, wherein the plurality of sensors include two weight monitors mounted on the upper horizontal members from which the forearm support units are hung via a unit/monitor connector connected to a monitor/unit connector, where the connection is detachable or non-detactable, and wherein the apparatus provides mobility assistance, while providing motion feedback data that is adapted to monitor a patient's use of the apparatus.