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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. [...]

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4 Tips to Prevent Falls in Your Skilled Nursing Facility

4 Tips to Prevent Falls in Your Skilled Nursing Facility One-third of adults over 64 years old, living outside of institutions, fall each year. The likelihood of falling continues to increase with age. Among the elderly, falls cause significant morbidity and mortality. Falling, or the fear of falling, often contributes to functional decline, depression, social [...]

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Six Tips for Preventing Patient Falls During Physical Therapy

Six Tips for Preventing Patient Falls During Physical Therapy The fear of falling can be a significant obstacle for many physical therapy patients. Falls can result in unwanted outcomes, including injury, decreased ability to do what you love, and a loss of independence. There are many ways physical therapists can help their patients improve balance, [...]