Controlling Foot Drop
A partnership between the patient, physical therapist, physician, and orthotist is key to finding the right product. A feature for the February/March 2018 issue of Physical Therapy Products by Uzo Igwegbe, PT, MPT.
Category: Gait & Balance
Gait & Balance
Popular
Gait & Balance
Latest
This Switches On and Speeds Up Tendon Healing
Researchers at CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at NUI Galway, suggest how the simple act of walking can power an implantable stimulator device to speed up treatment of musculoskeletal diseases.
Gait & Balance
LatestIntegrated Interventions for Stroke Rehab
Emily Lyter, PT, DPT, explains how the use of technology for post-stroke patients leads to better assessments, more effective interventions, and efficient care outcomes, in this feature for the June/July 2021 issue of Physical Therapy Products.
Gait Training to Music Offers Practice a Clinical and Competitive Advantage
Watch how the Biodex Gait Trainer™ 3 treadmill with music enhancement helped Body in Balance boost outcomes, and keep patients like Fran coming back.
Read More
How Robotic Gait Training Could Aid Early Stroke Recovery
High-dose therapy gait training using robotic exoskeletons may aid early rehabilitation for acute stroke, a study published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics suggests.
Read More
Restoring Functional Gait: Online Training Course
Healthclick offers “Restoring Functional Gait,” as a web-based course therapists can use to return their patients to optimal gait patterns, limit falls, and increase mobility.
Read More
Combine Two Approaches to Improve Gait Outcomes: Study
Combining two walking rehabilitation approaches might improve outcomes for survivors of stroke, USC researchers theorize. A study funded by a $100,000 Magistro Family Foundation Research Grant aims to test this theory.
Read More
Improve Strength and Balance with CobbleFoam from OPTP
OPTP launches the CobbleFoam Uneven-Surface Balance Trainer, designed to simulate the challenges of moving on uneven terrain to help people improve their strength and balance.
Read More
Could This Aid Parkinson’s Walking Problems?
A new approach to targeting and treating walking problems in people with Parkinson’s disease is being developed at Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Read More
Stroke Recovery at Brooks Rehabilitation Made Easier with a ReWalk ReStore Soft Exosuit
ReWalk Robotics Ltd has donated one of its ReStore Exo-suits to Brooks Rehabilitation, located in Jacksonville, Florida.
Read More
How Robotic Gait Training Could Help Brain-Injured Kids Move Better
Gait training using robotic exoskeletons improved motor function in adolescents and young adults with acquired brain injury, according to New Jersey-based researchers, in Applied Bionics and Biomechanics.
Read More
Athletic Performance: Seeing is Believing
Tim Sell, PhD, PT, and Kim Duffy, PhD, explain how physical therapy clinics are leveraging motion capture data for injury prevention and rehab, in this feature for the October/November 2020 issue of Physical Therapy Products.
Read More
Recovery Unlimited
Frank Long, MS, Editorial Director of Physical Therapy Products, takes a look at technology therapists use to pinpoint their interventions and prepare patients for community living, in this feature for the October/November 2020 issue.
Read More
Interacoustics’ VisualEyes, 3rd Gen, Launches
Interacoustics announces the launch of the third generation of Micromedical VisualEyes by Interacoustics, which offers Videonystagmography, vHIT and Rotary Chair testing in one integrated system. Register for the product launch on October 22.
Read More
Tekscan Introduces the F-Scan64, a Bluetooth-Enabled In-Shoe Pressure Mapping System
Tekscan Inc introduces the F-Scan64, a wireless in-shoe pressure mapping system designed to collect gait data for clinical research.
Read MoreTherapeutic Conditioning Product Showcase
Keep therapy engaging and effective with these technologies manufactured with the PT clinic in mind, featured in the August/September 2020 issue of Physical Therapy Products.
Read More
Walkasins Incorporation Into Artificial Limbs is Aim of $1M DOD Grant
RxFunction Inc, a provider of Walkasins, has been selected by the Defense Health Agency to receive a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct Phase II contract to fund further development of the prosthesis.
Read More
STRIDE Trial Puts Fall-Related Injury Prevention Plans to the Test
A nurse-managed, individually tailored falls prevention plan administered for at least 20 months did not significantly reduce risk of serious fall injuries in older adults aged 70 and over who were at high risk for falls, findings from the STRIDE trial, reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest.
Read More