Specialist Products

ORLAU Walkers and Standing Frames

The ORLAU Parawalker is a type of Reciprocal Walking Orthosis that is designed to enable paraplegic and other patients to walk.  (‘Reciprocal walking’ means taking alternate steps with one foot and then the other – as in ‘normal’ walking.) The ParaWalker was first developed for spina bifida patients in the 1970s, experience in assisting patients to walk led to this device b