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Helping patients recover from major surgery such as hip or knee replacement can be a real challenge. Most post-operative regimens require a period of time before weight-bearing exercises can begin, delaying recovery. Of course, the Earth’s gravitational field is to blame. But short of taking patients to the moon, which has just 20% of our planet’s gravity, there were no easy solutions until now.

Life Care Center of Littleton’s Therapy and Wellness Center in Littleton, Colo., recently put its new AlterG anti-gravity treadmill to the test in rehabilitating a bariatric patient, with tremendous outcomes

Three months after breaking his leg, Jim Leonhard slid himself into a Spandex girdle and, for the sake of a faster return to pro football, prepared to flout gravity

NRH Regional Rehab–National Rehabilitation Hospital’s network of outpatient centers in Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia–is now offering the AlterG anti-gravity treadmill at its Harborview Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy site at Harbor Hospital in Baltimore

It’s not really anti-gravity, more like a hovercraft for your lower half.  But for patients at St. Luke’s-Elks Rehabilitation in Ketchum and for community members who use the center’s new Alter-G “anti-gravity” treadmill, the results are more important than the mechanism

The irony isn’t lost on Bryan Moore, and probably not on the driver who slammed into his car on April 1, shattering the lower legs of one of the most high-profile personal-injury attorneys in Denver.  But appreciation of life’s weird turns doesn’t translate into physical rehabilitation, which is where a NASA-inspired machine dubbed the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill comes in.

AlterG today announced that the AlterG M300 Anti-Gravity Treadmill has received the 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award. The AlterG M300 delivers revolutionary anti-gravity technology originally developed at NASA in a sleek new design. The AlterG M300, the world’s only anti-gravity treadmill, is optimized in form, function and price for physical therapy clinics, athletic training and leading fitness facilities.

A Veteran undergoing physical therapy at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center can walk or jog on an “anti-gravity” treadmill that uses a unique differential air pressure technology allowing the Veteran to feel as if they are “walking on the moon” by reducing the pressure of the body’s weight.

The team’s new anti-gravity treadmill, which was brought in for Griffin’s rehab, may get more use from the Clippers’ starting center and small forward, who were both injured in the team’s last game.

A treadmill developed at the NASA Ames Research Center for exercising in space has seen more athletes than astronauts lately.