Case Studies
Case Studies
Parkinson’s-Focused Fitness Center Breaks Down Barriers to Exercise with Biodex Technology
“Our mission is to empower people with neurological conditions to live stronger every day, in all phases of life,” explains Eric Johnson, owner of Movement Revolution neuro intensive training centers in the Chicago area. With a focus on intense exercise for people with disabilities and neurological conditions, his locations in downtown Chicago, Deerfield, and western suburbs of Chicago (coming soon) allow clients to benefit from individualized training, a sense of community, and advanced exercise technology from Biodex Medical Systems, Inc.
Music Drives Single-Session Gait Progress for Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
Since April 1922, the Sheridan VA Medical Center has been treating Veterans in Wyoming who served our country. This property was once a military fort set aside by President William McKinley in 1898, but now roughly 12,500 Veterans are treated annually at Sheridan VA. Les Smith, a patient, is rehabbing from an incomplete SCI. Biodex Clinical Educator David Wilcox had the pleasure of working alongside Les and Dr. Joseph Hagy, DPT. Using the Gait Trainer 3 with Music-Assisted Therapy, the patient made significant improvements in a single session.
New Jersey Clinic Enhances Patient Rehab Using Music-Assisted Gait Training
In 2005, physical therapist Eleanor “Ellie” Hagan and her husband Dan founded Body In Balance in Linwood, NJ – one small room for treatment, and another for exercise. As a sole practitioner at the time, she selected the Biodex Mobility package – Balance System, Gait Trainer, Unweighing System and BioStep Semi-Recumbent Elliptical – to help her to efficiently rehab a wide range of patients.
How Music-enabled Gait Trainer Helped Patient Make Gains After Stroke
Jeff, 52 years old, suffered a left cerebral vascular accident (CVA) in 2015 while vacationing with his wife in Hawaii. After the stroke, he displayed considerable right hemiparesis and global aphasia. Jeff undergoes therapy at Texas NeuroRehab Center in Austin, TX, where his therapists treat him with the new Biodex music-enabled Gait Trainer 3. After six months of therapy on the Gait Trainer 3 with Music-Assisted Therapy, Jeff demonstrated impressive progress.
New Technology Enhances Rehab at the Emory Brain Health Center
The Emory Brain Health Center in Atlanta is building what it believes will be one of the nation’s leading outpatient rehabilitation centers for patients with neurological diseases and conditions. The heart of this modern center on Atlanta, GA’s Emory University campus is a team of highly experienced therapists equipped with one of the field’s most advanced range-of-technology systems, including the first music therapy-enhanced gait trainer, and the nation’s most extensive FreeStep SAS track systems.
Facility Develops Vivid Living, an Innovative Mobility-Recovery Program that Helps Seniors Walk Again
Seniors troubled by failing strength and memory get a “second chance” via Biodex
New Perspective Senior Living has developed and operates 12 senior care facilities in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois – all offering memory care and short-term-stay services, while several also offer assisted and independent living. Five of those centers are equipped with the latest Biodex mobility-rehabilitation systems to improve the lives of residents recovering from stroke, hip and knee replacements, or fighting the effects of progressive conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.
How Biodex programs give UHS Pruitt the Clinical Advantage
UHS Pruitt is a progressive chain of SNFs located in Georgia and North and South Carolina. Pruitt
Corporation currently manages directly and through affiliates, 56 nursing homes, four personal care
centers, a management company, three pharmacies, a hospice with eight offices and a separate inpatient unit, a care management company, and four certified home health agencies.
Pruitt began to expand their rehabilitation programs in 2007 when they started using the Biodex Fall Risk Screening and Conditioning Program. Twenty-seven (27) of their facilities incorporated the Biodex
Balance System into their testing / treatment routines, and that number continues to grow today.
High Tech Rehab Equipment from Biodex and determination pays off for TBI and Stroke Survivors at New Beginnings Community Center for Brain Injury Rehabilitation
When you walk into New Beginnings Community Center for Brain Injury Rehabilitation in Medford, NY, the welcoming feeling and positive energy permeate the building. Allyson Scerri, Founder & President, and Kate DiMeglio, Vice President, opened the state-of-the-art outpatient facility in April 2011, as a result of a common bond.
“Body In Balance” Clinic Blends Biodex Mobility Package with Stride-Stretching Techniques to Enhance Gait and Balance for Patients with Parkinson’s disease
Body in Balance Physical Therapy and Fitness Center, Linwood, NJ specializes in meeting the rehabilitation needs of area seniors. Physical therapist Eleanor (“Ellie”) Hagan founded the center in 2012 following more than a decade as a therapist and manager in outpatient and home PT services. Body in Balance serves patients of all ages with a broad range of neurologic and orthopedic conditions, although approximately 80% are geriatric.
“Body In Balance” Clinic Keeps Cancer Survivor Mobile with Biodex Unweighing System & Gait Trainer Until Knee Surgery Possible
Sometimes, rehab can be therapeutic even when it just stabilizes a patient’s condition until a surgical cure can be tolerated – and for 82-year-old cancer survivor Liz, technology allows maintenance of conditioning impossible without it.
Meeting the Challenges of Diverse Seniors – Many with Dementia, Stroke, Parkinson’s disease
The Lighthouse of Waconia, MN is one of the region’s premier senior living communities. It offers independent living, assisted living apartments, short-term stay and a special activity-based memory care facility. The physical therapy needs of Lighthouse residents are served by one of the state’s best-equipped and staffed physical therapy clinics, operated by the Odom Health & Wellness group founded by Minneapolis sports medicine physician John H. Odom, MD.
Using Biodex Mobility Systems in Patients with Dementia: Experience at the Lighthouse at Waconia
Clinical studies at facilities around the world are accumulating a growing body of evidence supporting the intuitive beliefs of many physical therapists that a structured exercise and balance development program offers a variety of important benefits to individuals with mild and moderate Alzheimer’s disease.
St. Catherine’s Rehabilitation Hospitals sites Biodex Devices among their most helpful tools
All across the world, hospitals and clinics, big and small, touch the lives of patients receiving physical therapy and occupational therapy in wonderful ways every minute of every day. Few, however, have such a wide reaching positive impact as the brace of St. Catherine’s Rehabilitation go far beyond the traditional rehabilitation agenda, reaching out to thousands of patients yearly by offering cutting edge treatment and equipment, providing a tremendous student training program, and offering a credentialed post-graduate residency training for physical therapists in geriatrics (the first of its kind accredited by the APTA).