Fig. 12

Codes related to Acquisition issues (n = 2). The main acquisition issue expressed by all experienced users (clinicians and e-SCI) and most n-SCI (55.6%) is the purchase cost, a well-known limitation of exoskeletons currently [23]. Some of the users, mostly e-SCI, also talked about the limited access to the technologies that are in hospitals or rehabilitation centers, both because there are few devices available and because they are busy most of the time, given that several users are assigned to each available device. No new codes emerged in this field