At St. Luke's Rehabilitation in Spokane, Washington, 21-year-old Cameron Tweedy was relearning to walk — transitioning from a walker to crutches and managing roughly 400 to 600 steps per session. The hardest part wasn't the effort; it was the fear. Without full sensation in the lower half of his body, every step carried the worry of falling.
That changed when he began training in Aretech's ZeroG Gait and Balance System, which rides a U-shaped ceiling track and suspends him in a harness, providing dynamic body-weight support and fall protection. Within a week or two, Cameron exceeded 1,500 steps in a single session.
"I struggled more with walking with that fear of falling… When I started using the ZeroG, that's when my progression started getting better, because the fear of falling went away."Cameron Tweedy
His care team saw the difference, too. By letting patients feel their own loss of balance without the risk of a real fall, ZeroG frees clinicians to focus on better treatment. As St. Luke's Jake Allstot noted, in their first stretch with the system the team worked with 32 patients and prevented 250 falls — "freedom of movement… with safety at the forefront."