The Tango Belt was conceived on the simple belief that most hip fractures can be prevented.

Hip fractures remain one of the most significant and costly events in older adult care, driving loss of independence, increased morbidity, and long-term care. Despite decades of fall-management strategies, traditional solutions force a compromise between mobility and safety; a tradeoff that often results in poor adherence and limited clinical impact.

Motivated by personal experience and informed by clinical insight, the Tango® Belt team set out to create an innovative solution that enhances safety without limiting mobility and supports at-risk older adults before, during, and after a fall.

Technology Designed for Clinical Impact

Through extensive research and engineering, the Tango Belt was developed to identify serious, hip-impacting falls in progress and provide injury protection. When a serious fall is detected, the belt automatically deploys an airbag to help reduce hip-impact forces and deliver protection exactly when it is needed most.

Lightweight, discreet, and ergonomically designed for everyday wear, including while sleeping and toileting, the Tango Belt supports mobility and independence rather than restricting it. Its design encourages consistent adherence, helping clinicians address one of the central challenges in managing fall injury risk: ensuring protection is worn at the time of a fall.

Advancing Mobility-Preserving Fall Protection

The Tango Belt represents a new paradigm in fall risk management, empowering at-risk older adults to stay active and independent while providing clinicians with a proactive, technology-enabled intervention to reduce serious fall injuries. By combining intelligent fall detection with automated protection, the Tango Belt helps transform hip fractures from an expected event into a condition of the past.

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 and breaking their hips.

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