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Prevailing Over Parkinson’s
The bodyweight supported treadmill we use allows comfortable unweighting with air to decrease the ground reaction forces while providing stability and safety.
RUNNING USA - Olympian Ritzenhein Returns to ING New York City Marathon - November 7 race will be the Alberto Salazar protégé's first marathon in more than 18 months
NEW YORK - (July 20, 2010) - Two-time U.S. Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein will return this year to the ING New York City Marathon, the race in which he made his marathon debut in 2006, it was announced by New York Road Runners president and CEO Mary Wittenberg.
For your post-operative and post-injury patients, AlterG’s unique unweighting treadmill provides the opportunity to include closed kinetic chain functional rehabilitation earlier than ever before. AlterG is FDA cleared to safely provide physical therapy rehab for any of your lower extremity patients who are:
- Approved by their treating physician for at least 25% partial weight bearing
- Allowed to flex and extend their hip, knee, and ankle through a limited range of motion
This revolutionary rehabilitation equipment also provides “prehab” conditioning with significantly reduced pain. Patients who try the AlterG treadmill overwhelmingly prefer it and 100% of those surveyed say they like it.
Orthopedic Functional Rehabilitation
- Enables pre-surgery conditioning with significantly reduced pain (prehab)
- Expands the concept “Weight Bearing As Tolerated” from 20% of body weight to 100% in 1% increments, so patients can specify exactly where exercise becomes pain free and progress can be easily tracked and charted.
- Provides precise early partial weight-bearing following injury or surgery to restore natural gait, range of motion and improved patient outcomes
- Prosthetic training with improved balance and confidence
- Neuromuscular and proprioceptive re-training
NEUROREHABILITATION PROGRAM
- Neuromuscular and proprioceptive re-training
- Improves neuromuscular control and activity and promotes brain plasticity
- Enhances balance and confidence while emphasizing improved gait and stride length
- Provides a safe environment for multi-task training and learning
- Enables higher work load and training intensity for cardiovascular health and gait
- High-degree of comfort and minimal fear of falling
- 80% of target maximum heart rate exercise for longer periods of time
Weight Loss Solution and Treating Obesity
- Exercise at fractional body weights to control metabolic workload and musculoskeletal strain while optimizing gait and range of motion
- Exercise at reduced body weights to minimize joint stress and pain
- Promote full range of motion to train for normal joint health and function
- Motivation, empowerment and compliance enhanced from experiencing immediate perceived weight loss
- Renewed functional capacity
- Improves cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health in individuals that can’t exercise regularly
- Accommodates individuals with up to 58” waist
- Makes it possible to run (even for very obese individuals)
Senior Rehabilitation Strengthening and Conditioning
- Exercise at fractional body weights to overcome mobility challenges in older patients
- Promotes cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health in a safe environment
- Strengthening and improved coordination of muscles thereby protecting surrounding joints
- Builds confidence in older patients for improved functional capacity
- May lower the risk of falling
“I believe the AlterG will become the standard in rehabilitation and training.”
Dr. Amol Saxena
Podiatric Surgeon
Palo Alto
Medical Foundation
