Category: Gait & Balance

Gait & Balance

How to Start a Mindful Movement Practice

In her final installment of this series, Karen Danchalski, PT, DPT, shares her personal story and offers some suggestions for how therapists can start their own mindful movement practice.

Gait & Balance

Assistive Devices Give Kids a Mobility Boost

For the dependent child who is limited in gross motor ability, assistive devices encourage growth, participation, and engagement in their life, as this Rehab Management feature discusses.

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

NeurOpTrek Wearable Fall Risk Assessment Tool in Development

Sensoria Health and Padula Rehabilitation Technologies announce a collaboration to develop NeurOpTrek, a wearable ROF assessment solution.

Body Weight Support Systems

Balance Treatment Device GyroStim Receives FDA Clearance and Breakthrough Device Designation

GyroStim is reportedly the first FDA-cleared device for treating balance disorders to receive FDA designation as a Breakthrough Device.

Objective Data Measurement

ProtoKinetics COO Michael Rowling Appears in Cover Story for Pharma Tech Outlook

Michael Rowling, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Business Development for ProtoKinetics, Havertown, Pa., is featured in the cover story of the September Pharma Tech Outlook with an informative look at the impact the company's technologies have had on healthcare clinicians and researchers.

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

Walker Squawker Aims to Bring Joy and Companionship to Every Step

The Walker Squawker -- an animatronic bird designed to perch playfully atop of walking devices -- is now available from Ageless Innovation.