What Is the L360?
The L360 Thigh System is a medical device that can help people lead more active lives after total knee replacement or anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. Research shows that muscle volume may decrease up to 20% in patients after a total knee replacement, and many patients experience quadriceps atrophy after ACL reconstruction.4
Studies also suggest standard rehabilitation has not always been effective in preventing quadriceps atrophy.4,5
Using two innovative technologies called neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) and functional electrical stimulation (FES), the L360 Thigh System offers important benefits for patients:
- Strengthen quadriceps and hamstring muscles
- Improve knee stability
- Prevent or slow disuse atrophy
- Facilitate muscle re-education
- Maintain or increase joint range of motion
- Increase local blood flow
- Ease muscle spasms
The L360 Thigh System’s components:
- A lightweight cuff positioned on the thigh, either on the quadriceps or hamstrings, to facilitate knee extension or flexion
- A pulse generator with gyroscopic sensing that delivers stimulation to the thigh cuff and has a user interface, including visual, audio, and tactile feedback
Contact us to schedule a demonstration of the L360 Thigh System or to get more information about Bioness products.
Indications for Use: The L360 Thigh System is intended to assist knee flexion or extension in adult individuals with muscle weakness related to upper motor neuron disease/injury (e.g., stroke, damage to pathways to the spinal cord). The L360 Thigh System electrically stimulates muscles in the affected leg to provide knee flexion or extension; thus, it also may improve the individual’s gait.
The L360 Thigh System may also facilitate muscle re-education, prevent/retard disuse atrophy, maintain or increase joint range of motion, increase local blood flow, provide early post-surgical quadriceps and hamstring strengthening, improve post-surgical knee stability secondary to quadriceps and hamstring strengthening, and relax muscle spasms.
L360 Thigh System is contraindicated in patients with a demand-type cardiac pacemaker, defibrillator or any electrical implant. Do not use the system on a leg where metallic implant is directly underneath the electrodes, a cancerous lesion is present or suspected, or on a leg with regional disorder (e.g., fracture or dislocation) which could be adversely affected by motion from the stimulation. Use caution in patients with diagnosed or suspected cardiac problems or epilepsy.
Full prescribing information can be found in product labeling or at: www.bionessrehab.com/l360/safety-information.
