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7 Common Gait Dysfunctions in Older Adults

7 Common Gait Dysfunctions in Older Adults Gait refers to a person’s manner of walking or moving on foot. Walking involves balance and coordination of muscles so that the body moves forward in a rhythm, called the stride. Many different things can cause an abnormal gait. Some common causes are: A degenerative disease (such as [...]

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Overhead Track Systems: 5 Layouts for your Facility

Overhead Track Systems: 5 Layouts for your Facility Ceiling track systems, like Solo-Step, are increasingly becoming a normality in physical therapy locations, skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, and even in homes for those who can no longer move on their own. Caretakers are investing more in overhead track and harness systems than alternatives such as mobile [...]

A patient practices balancing as part of physical therapy

Walking After Stroke: 5 Gait Training Exercises To Improve Strength and Balance

Walking After Stroke: 5 Gait Training Exercises To Improve Strength and Balance A significant goal in post-stroke rehabilitation is to regain the strength to walk independently. Your gait is your specific pattern of walking. Walking is a complex series of movements that requires your bones, muscles, and brain to work together, with help from your [...]

A man with prosthetic legs uses the Solo-Step

Ceiling Track Systems for Handicapped Patients: Top 5 Benefits

Ceiling Track Systems for Handicapped Patients: Top 5 Benefits Ceiling track systems are designed to keep handicapped patients upright while moving them from one location to another or performing physical therapy tasks safely and comfortably. Adding a ceiling track system for your handicapped patients can provide many amazing benefits to your skilled nursing facility, physical [...]

10 Amazing Fall Prevention Products for your Hospital or Skilled Nursing Facility

10 Amazing Fall Prevention Products for your Hospital or Skilled Nursing Facility On average, nursing homes with 100 residents report about 100-200 falls annually. There are also 700,000 to 1 million hospitalized patients that fall each year. No facility or hospital wants to see its patients get hurt or injured from falling. These 10 fall [...]

DeVaughn’s Story

DeVaughn’s Story Three years ago, retired army Seargent DeVaughn Ollison was in a motorcycle accident, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury, stroke, and broken bones in his upper body and spine. He was given just a five percent chance of survival. After six months in the hospital, DeVaughn was finally able to start rehab. [...]