Category: Gait & Balance

Gait & Balance

OPTP’s CobbleFoam Aims to Improve Strength and Balance

The CobbleFoam Uneven-Surface Balance Trainer from OPTP is designed to simulate the challenges of moving on uneven terrain to help people improve their strength and balance.

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New Inpatient Rehab Hospital to Come in Oklahoma City

NKD Rehab LLC has begun constructing a one-story, 40-room inpatient rehab hospital in Oklahoma City.

Gait & Balance

Getting REAL About Functional Therapy

Go inside the community simulation environment of Realistic Environment Applied Learning (REAL) therapy and learn how functional, task-specific treatment improves service delivery and patient outcomes. By Tracie Hunnicutt, MS, CCC-SLP; Julie Clement, OTR; and Susan Adix, PT.

Assessment & Evaluation

Interacoustics Launches the Third Generation of VisualEyes

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.

Body Weight Support Systems

Gaining Ground Against Neurological Injury

Elizabeth Watson, PT, DPT, NCS, shares how an intensive, boot camp-style, activity-based program fosters recovery and emotional well-being, in this feature for the March 2020 issue of Rehab Management.

Objective Data Measurement

Fall Risk and Fall Prevention in Older Adults

The physical and financial cost of falls is staggering, but risk assessment, lifestyle adjustments, and home modifications mean falling does not have to be a fact of aging, shares Donna Bainbridge, PT, EdD, AT-Ret, CIFT, in this feature for the November/December 2019 issue of Rehab Management.

Gait Pressure Mapping

The F-Scan64: A Gait Data Collection System Built Inside the Shoe

Tekscan Inc introduces the F-Scan64, a wireless in-shoe pressure mapping system designed to collect gait data for clinical research.

Assistive Devices

Core Mobility Launches the LifeGlider, Designed to Help Prevent Falls

Core Mobility Solutions Inc officially releases the patented LifeGlider, a general-purpose mobility device designed to secure the center of gravity to help prevent users from falling even if they lose their grip or footing.