Case Studies

Regaining independence after any injury is essential in continued quality of life for the elderly. Early movement with the AlterG can allow therapy to begin in fall-safe environment.

• Increase safety and independence while replicating normal gait movement
• Redevelop static and dynamic standing balance
• Decrease risk of falls
• Improve ambulation while building endurance

Fractures can occur through many high-impact physical activities and patients are often anxious to get moving again. With the help of the Anti-Gravity Treadmill, individuals can get moving again while reducing the chance of additional injury.

• Safe and stable environment post-surgery
• Ability to move at reduced weight during rehabilitation
• Early progression to higher intensities with reduced pain

Patients can be deconditioned after a significant illness, surgery, or any period of inactivity. Resuming exercise can be challenging and frustrating, so starting at lower body weights can provide a safe, comfortable option to help these patients begin their journey back to health.

• Lower body positive pressure allows for an easier exercise starting point for deconditioned patients.
• Easily track progress to help patients see improvement and motivate them to continue on the road back to their prior level of function.
• Improved independence and safety for patients to help them regain their quality of life.

Patients with balance deficits are at increased fall-risk, significantly affecting independence and quality of life. Lower body positive pressure training is an effective means to help these patients work on static and dynamic balance to regain function, increase stability and safety, and recapture their lives.

• Perform gait training and dynamic balance activities with increased safety.
• Help patients work on gait kinematics to restore proper mechanics.
• Objectively track progress.

Brain injuries are usually accompanied by decreased balance, loss of safety with ambulation, and increased fall-risk for patients. This usually means a loss of independence and a significant effect on the patient’s quality of life. Lower body positive pressure training is an effective means to help these patients regain function, relearn proper movement, and recapture their lives.

• Perform gait training and dynamic balance activities with increased safety.
• Help patients work on gait kinematics to restore proper mechanics.
• Objectively track progress.

Brainstem cerebrovascular accidents can result in abnormal gait patterns and limited functionality and mobility. Using the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill in the rehabilitation process allows patients to normalize gait patterns and return to movement in a fall-safe environment.

• Ambulation at reduced body weight to increase balance functionality
• Reduce fall risk
• Normalize gait pattern on both even and uneven surfaces

The AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill allows reduced body weight with standing/walking to help with progressive return to cardiovascular activity. This reduced physiologic demand on a compromised cardiac system provides users with a safe, comfortable way to begin exercising and regain fitness levels.

• Allows deconditioned patients to start standing/walking at lower body weights.
• Progress to more body weight as patient endurance improves.
• Monitor progress/changes in condition with precise measures of patient’s load tolerance.