NASA 'Anti-Gravity' Technology: The Future of Clinical Physiotherapy

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NASA 'Anti-Gravity' Technology: The Future of

Clinical Physiotherapy

PR Newswire

LONDON, September 12, 2012

LONDON

,

September 12, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

The AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill has been on trial in the Regional Trauma Unit

at the NHS Royal Victoria Hospital in

Belfast

for the past three months. During

that time over two hundred patients have benefited from the unique 'Anti-

Gravity' technology.

The technology was originally developed at NASA and tested at Nike's Oregon

Research Project by America's top distance runners. The AlterG Anti-Gravity

Treadmill uses 'Differential Air Pressure' that can 'un-weight' up to 80% of a

person's body weight, allowing for stable support while rehabilitating from

injury.

As Doctor Louis O'Connor, Clinical Lead Physiotherapist for the Regional

Trauma Unit at the NHS Royal Victoria Hospital says

: "We've had the AlterG

Treadmill on loan, in our Fracture Rehabilitation Gym. The majority of patients

have come from a trauma and orthopaedic background and with a significant

amount of lower limb fractures, so from ankle injuries to knee injuries, to hip

injuries to pelvic injuries. There have been also a number of patients with

neurological weakness, patients who have had strokes; patients who have had

head injuries and medical issues. So there has been close to nearly two

hundred patients who have trialled the AlterG during the three-month period

that it's been here."

The AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill works by filling a sealed chamber with air to

offset a percentage of the weight of the person using it. It has two main

functions: functional rehabilitation, promoting normal gait patterns whilst

maintaining comfortable weight-bearing therapy. This allows people who have

sustained injury, joint replacement or neurological conditions to regain function.

AlterG have built up an unrivaled reputation in the sports sector in UK, having

sold treadmills into nineteen out of the twenty Premiership football clubs, as

well many leading Premiership rugby clubs. AlterG's focus is now to establish

themselves in the healthcare and medical sectors in the UK. Other UK

customers include leading health & leisure club operators, private hospital

groups, military rehabilitation units, sport physiotherapists, personal trainers

and sports coaches.

Watch this short video of Doctor Louis O'Connor and patients talking about the

benefits of the AlterG -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVY0aDtdGpc&feature=plcp

To arrange an interviews with Louis O'Connor or any patients featured in our

videos please contact Henman Communications on M [phone] /

[e-mail]

More videos at - http://www.youtube.com/user/AlterGInc/feed

For further information and clinical evidence visit - http://www.alterg.eu