Dynamic Devices: From the sports to the health market

2012 was a year of change and opportunity for Dynamic Devices. The company’s sales and marketing strategy, originally aimed at the sports market, into which it had already sold nine of its interactive robotic resistance training devices, suddenly took a dramatic turn into the medical sector.

The trigger for this unprecedented change of strategy was an elderly woman on crutches, suffering from peripheral neuropathy, a disease which ultimately causes total loss of limb function. The elder lady had come to visit her son working as an engineer at Dynamic Devices. Just out of curiosity she took a spin on the device he had helped design - and had immediate, positive effects no one would have imagined. This event changed everything - for her and for the company.

The company began to attract people suffering from different neurological diseases in need to try a therapy the market could not offer and spontaneously set up training protocols for them. Within weeks improvement was observed, albeit the fact that their pathology was deemed irreparable.

As a result Dynamic Devices is now receiving worldwide admittance to neurological associations and is generating clinical evidence together with internationally renowned Swiss medical institutions.

Doctors and researchers assume that the Dynamic Leg Press Medical can be used for an entire field of applications such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, treatment of neuro-orthopedic ailments and other neuro-muscular pathologies.

This was the missing cornerstone of the company’s expansion strategy into the global medical devices market and has been integrated accordingly. In parallel, future products and services are being developed and company processes optimized.

Dynamic Devices’ headquarters are at the Technopark Zurich. The company was founded beginning 2009 by the robotics experts Raja Dravid and Dr. Max Lungarella. In September 2012 it was awarded the CTI Startup Label and was declared “ready for sustainable business development”.