With support from Enabel, the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Clinical Hospital and the Dnipro City Clinical Hospital #4 have each received three sets of smart insoles from Ceriter, a Belgian med-tech startup. 

Stride One, which Enabel previously introduced to two Kyiv hospitals, is a device designed to improve gait rehabilitation for patients recovering after amputations, complex fractures, and cerebrovascular accidents.

These insoles, equipped with sensors, accurately measure foot rotation and other gait parameters, sending the collected data to an app that generates recommendations for patients. Piet Stevens, founder of Ceriter, travelled to Ukraine to present the product to specialists at the centres of excellence.

"During the training session, we tried this device with a lower limb amputee patient who has only recently started using a prosthetic and has not yet learned to distribute weight evenly between the prosthetic and their healthy leg. After programming the insoles, we started training the patient to do that—and it was quite engaging, with audio cues signalling mistakes," explains Kateryna Zahorodnya, head of the Centre for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine at the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Clinical Hospital. "We expect that Stride One will facilitate faster recovery for our patients."

"The smart insoles will help us conduct more precise and objective gait assessments. It is convenient that this equipment is compact and can be used outdoors," adds Darya Krapiva, physical therapist at the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Department of the Dnipro City Clinical Hospital #4. "We will be learning, trying, and testing, but we already see that this is exactly what we need."

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