Source: Meridianstar Accustomed to running around on the softball field, Northeast Lauderdale alumna Alixus Hearn decided she wasn’t going to be sitting down for the rest of her life. On Oct. 2, 2017, Hearn was involved in a car wreck that ejected her from her vehicle and left her paralyzed from the waist down due […]
Source: Times Staff Amy Peters and Julie Gaski are taking steps to heal and recover after illness left them unable to walk by themselves. With the help of new technology at Community Hospital in Munster, they have new motivation and hope. The ZeroG Gait and Balance System, the first of its kind in Northwest Indiana, […]
Source: PRWeb Aretech, LLC, an advanced rehabilitation technology leader, announced the release of TRiP for the ZeroG Gait and Balance System, which allows therapists to apply unexpected external perturbations to their patients in order to teach them how to recover from a loss of balance. TRiP (Training Responses in Postural Rehabilitation) was developed in collaboration with Drs. […]
Source: Gaylord Specialty Healthcare / Gaylord Hospital Physical Therapists Erica Cadavid, PT, DPT and Kaitlyn Rudolph PT, DPT at Gaylord Specialty Healthcare highlight their ZeroG Gait and Balance System. View Gaylord Hospital Video of ZeroG ZeroG creates a safe environment so therapists can perform high level balance training and functional mobility without the risk of […]
Source: PRWeb Aretech announced the release of Ovation at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting (APTA-CSM) in Washington, DC. Ovation is the first technology in the world to offer dynamic body-weight support and fall protection for patients training on a treadmill who weigh up to 700 pounds. See Ovation at APTA-CSM “Ovation builds upon […]
Source: WXYZ Detroit Cutting-edge new technology making its debut in southeast Michigan could be life-changing for those with brain and spinal cord injuries. The robotic “ZeroG” is helping patients at Special Tree in Romulus. Sloan Hogan was driving down the street when a vehicle came out of his driveway right out into the middle of the […]
Source: ABC7 News – SF Bay Area Emergency room physician, Matthew Wetschler was body surfing when a wave sent him head first into the ocean floor. He was found floating in the water with a broken neck and without a pulse. He was given CPR on the beach, and was rushed to the hospital without the ability […]
Source: CBS News Months after being ambushed by a gunman, Representative Steve Scalise tells 60 Minutes how close he came to dying – and how a series of “little miracles” saved him. The Republican lawmakers had been practicing in Virginia for a charity baseball game, when a bullet tore through his hip and across his body. […]
Aretech, LLC, an advanced rehabilitation technology leader, announced the release of Version 3 of the ZeroG Gait and Balance System at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting (APTA-CSM) in San Antonio, TX. The new ZeroG is the most sophisticated robotic body-weight support system in the world. The system has been redesigned with more […]
Source Video: Marianjoy Vanessa Flaherty, PT, DPT, a physical therapist at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, IL, shows how ZeroG helps them safely perform gait retraining with their patients. ZeroG can help those who are recovering from neuromuscular disorders such as stroke, traumatic brain injury and incomplete spinal cord injury or other orthopedic conditions. […]
