Patello — passive continuous patellar mobilisation

Passive continuous patellar mobilisation

Patello device, CAD rendering — Patello — CAD rendering

Patello moves the kneecap — gently and continuously, the way a therapist's hands would, but for as long as the patient needs it.

The effect is measured: in a SUPSI study (IJMBS 2020) the device shifted the patella significantly (p < 0.001).

Since September 2026, Patello has its own test bench in the Srm-Lab in Chur, together with SUPSI Landquart. Its data are now read out and time-stamped — ready to answer the question that has been open since 2016: does the pressure the device applies tell us something about the knee?

Patents

Patent holder since 2020, acquired from HSR Rapperswil · inventors: Koller-Hodac et al.

US 10,188,574 B2 — USPTO Patent Center
EP 2 616 033 B1 — Espacenet

Evidence

Efficacy of a new device for passive continuous patellar mobilization, IJMBS 2020 — doi:10.32553/ijmbs.v4i3.971 (co-author)

Novelty is examined by an office, efficacy by a study — the valley of death lies between them. More on research.gredig.swiss.

Get involved

What Patello needs next is not money first. It is you. If you have worked on it — as an engineer, therapist, surgeon or researcher — or if you see what it could become, you can join with hours of your expertise: half paid in cash, half credited in AVPs. A few hours, well placed, move this further than a year of waiting.

Yours, Joeri — joeri@gredig.swiss