You'll be damned lucky if your hospital can afford this.
But what about all these other treadmills? Don't you believe in testing the complete universe of treadmills? Or too lazy to do them all? So once again we will need followup research to identify the best intervention via treadmill. What a fucking waste just because we have NO stroke leadership and NO stroke strategy.
Stroke Rehabilitation and the AlterG - Anti-gravity treadmill
The treadmill bike!?
air pressure treadmill
Turning-Based Treadmill
Air pressure treadmill instantly sheds 80% of your weight
underwater treadmill
Split Belt Treadmill
rotating treadmill
The latest here:
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| From the pdf, notice split belts. |
The Integrated Virtual Environment Rehabilitation Treadmill System
Abstract:
Slow
gait speed and interlimb asymmetry are prevalent in a variety of
disorders. Current approaches to locomotor retraining emphasize the need
for appropriate feedback during intensive, task-specific practice. This
paper describes the design and feasibility testing of the integrated
virtual environment rehabilitation treadmill (IVERT) system intended to
provide real-time, intuitive feedback regarding gait speed and asymmetry
during training. The IVERT system integrates an instrumented,
split-belt treadmill with a front-projection, immersive virtual
environment. The novel adaptive control system uses only ground reaction
force data from the treadmill to continuously update the speeds of the
two treadmill belts independently, as well as to control the speed and
heading in the virtual environment in real time. Feedback regarding gait
asymmetry is presented 1) visually as walking a curved trajectory
through the virtual environment and 2) proprioceptively in the form of
different belt speeds on the split-belt treadmill. A feasibility study
involving five individuals with asymmetric gait found that these
individuals could effectively control the speed of locomotion and
perceive gait asymmetry during the training session. Although minimal
changes in overground gait symmetry were observed immediately following a
single training session, further studies should be done to determine
the IVERT's potential as a tool for rehabilitation of asymmetric gait by
providing patients with congruent visual and proprioceptive feedback.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering ( Volume: 19, Issue: 3, June 2011)
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