/PRNewswire/ Kaweah Health is the first in California using a new piece of technology, the SafeGait 360º Balance and Mobility Trainer® to help people who.
Gait & Balance Product Showcase
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Physical Therapy Products
Integrated Rehabilitation Improves Gait and Balance
Biodex Medical Systems, Shirley, NY, provides physical medicine devices engineered to work together seamlessly to address balance, strength, cardiovascular health, and confidence an integrated rehabilitation approach to improving gait and balance. This is the premise behind Biodex Balance & Mobility and its Fall Risk Screening and Conditioning Program. Facilities can expand their rehabilitation capabilities and at the same time accelerate rehabilitation time, maximize staff, and provide objective documentation. Measurable, reported progress is necessary in this changing environment. The clinical efficiency of using Biodex technology aims to improve outcomes and help reduce the rate of readmissions. Documenting efficacy to hospitals can make a rehab provider an attractive partner for value-based and bundled episode payment models.
Unweighting: Maximizing Use of the X, Y, and Z Axis
Specialized technologies are improving how gait patients get past their fear of falling and optimize their progress in lower extremity rehab
By Monty Merrill, MS, PT, OCS, FAAOMPT
Technologies designed to provide therapeutic activity for the lower extremities have helped expand the approaches therapists use in designing interventions for patients who are battling gait impairments. Regardless of whether the cause of impairment is orthopedic or neurological, technologies that unload body weight, build strength, improve balance, or measure and assess gait all have increased the specificity with which therapists may address lower limb impairment. This is as true for athletes as it is for the frail elderly.