The WalkCompanion System contains the WalkCompanion App, the WalkCompanion Belt and In-Ear-Headphones.
The first smartphone-based feedback system for an intuitive balance perception while walking.
Trust your body again. The WALKCOMPANION disburdens and supports the sense of balance when walking. The WALKCOMPANION App is always ready to use and offers posture control at situations with unsteady gait. It reduce the occurence of fears, protective behaviour and unsteady gait.
The sense of balance is trained to handle the vertigo symptoms in walking situations. Every movement excercise supports an improvement. Always there and always ready, the WALKCOMPANION enables to do spontanous movement excercises. A health supporting training does not have to take place in therapy practices or at home. Just exit the subway one station earlier, walk a detour or take an extended walk.
Personal achievements are essentiell to overcome the symptoms. The WALKCOMPANION supports progress tracking by tools like step tracker and simple success protocols to visualize your positive moments. Required dicipline becomes positive self-motivation and confidence in your own abilities increases.
You will benefit from the increased movement excercises. Aside overcoming the vertigo, the increased movement will result in a positive chain reaction: Movement supports the mental and physical health as well as mobility. More mobility reduces the protective behaviour reduces the risk to fall and creates more independence and freedom. Movment will lead you to your goals: Less Vertigo, More Life.
Stephan coordinates the reasearch and is the head of our client support. Himself being an affected person, Stephan is convinced by the WalkCompanion system. He is the primary motivation for the team, seeing that the systems works in everyday life.
The interaction and UX designer is driven by creating and continously optimizing an patient-centered bio-feedback system for more security in gait.
As an Aeronautics and Space Engineer and prototyper with over 10 years of experience in software development, Benjamin brings sensory and software together to realize a practical development.
The sport scientist and therapist for medical training is head of reasearch and supports the patient-centered development.
The managing senior physician at German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders of LMU Munich is convinced of the WalkCompanion and provides medical advisory to the development.
24 mio.
people suffer once in their lifetime from strong vertigo
35 %
risk of a psychological chronification
10 %
of all practice patients complain about vertigo
4 mio.
people in Germany live with vestibulary vertigo
ADDASENSE Health GmbH
Ottobrunner Straße 28
82008 Unterhaching
Germany
