Overview:
Furniture’s are important aspect in rehabilitation of a person after a surgery or during the treatment stages of the disease. They are designed taking into consideration their functionality, patient comfort and safety. The manufacturers involved in the production of therapy chairs are primarily focusing on providing basic features such as manually adjustable footrest, emergency foot pedal, and brakes for each wheel. A few value additions have been done related to the chair design in the past decade such as lower armrest, easy to operate remote control, reading lamp, infusion pole and holder for paper roll. Motors are attached to the therapy chairs for enhanced locomotion especially in geriatric patients taking treatment for chronic diseases. The main objective in designing therapy chairs is to facilitate the treatment protocols of medical staff and patient’s comfort while undergoing treatment. Currently the therapy chairs are integrated with microprocessor to manage intelligent control systems.
According to World Health Organization 2015 report, chronic diseases are responsible for 60 % of all deaths due to lack of rehabilitation facilities. The global health and aging report has cited that the number of people 65 years and above are expected to reach 1.5 billion by 2050 with huge baby boomer population in developing nations. These factors are going to drive the therapy chairs market to cope with the large number of patients anticipated to receive treatment in the coming future. Oncology therapy chairs currently dominate the therapy chairs market owing to rise in prevalence of cancer and provision of advanced feature such as high speed trendelenburg position used for surgical procedures of patients suffering with cancer of abdomen and genitourinary regions. The dialysis chairs are on a rise due to increase in number of patients suffering with kidney complications and increasing demand for homecare settings.
The segmentation for global therapy chairs market is given as follows:
Key players identified for global therapy chairs market includes:
The cardinal players identified in global therapy chairs market are Actualway, Bionic Medizintechnik GmbH, Beautelle Therapy Equipment, Digiterm Ltd., EMD Medical Technologies, Iskra Medical, LiKAMED, Malvestio Group, MCube Technology, TekMed and among others.
A condensed information regarding the scope of the report therapy chairs market is given below: