Anchored in work undertaken with a DOD grant to help injured veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, the now President of Aretech Inc recruited engineers and therapists to create the âperfectâ therapy tool. His thought was a device safely to treat patients of all functional levels, allowing users to practice functional activities and to learn from their mistakes. The device had to enable patient-therapist interaction, and must allow rapid set-up. With no available reference points or other product avialable to meet these standards, there were lots of false starts. Then, some time later on a train between NYC and DC, the firm's founder sketched out a drawing on the back of a cocktail napkin and finally, in 2006, a spring-based prototype had emerged that would become the ZeroG Gait and Balance Training System with - two years later - the first patient used ZeroG in therapy. Eventuallly, as the need for this technology pread beyond the walls of National Rehabilitation Hospital. Aretech - stands for âAdvanced Rehabilitation Technologiesâ - was formed to bring ZeroG to market. Today, more Aretech products are an important part of the recovery process for so many people in helping achieve optimal recovery outcomes. The firm went on to invent a robotic overground body-weight support system and continue to move the field of rehabilitation forward with unique features and innovative pr
