Introduction

Dr. Robert F. Buckman, a lifelong medical innovator with 15 patents to his name and author of over 100 publications in the field of trauma, recognized an enormous, unsolved healthcare crisis - frail, independent elderly patients falling down and breaking their hips.

Combining his clinical knowledge with engineering prowess, the Tango team studied fall-risk factors, developed a methodology to determine falls with unprecedented accuracy, and created the Tango Belt