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Our Innovative Providers
have pushed a change and we are
excited to offer it to you FREE of charge! The
IM 8.2 software now includes the capability to
add new customized exercises. Now you no longer have
to guess what modifications you have made, because you
can just name the exercise just what you are doing (ie.
Both Toes Sitting on Balance Ball).
Up to
12 new tasks can be added per patient file.
How
to create an custom exercise:
Once
your exercise is named, it will be saved in the patients
file and can be used throughout the entire therapy cycle
with that patient. It will also build a report for
reviewing improvements for your "New custom task" on
page two of the regular training reports.
*This new software version
is also IM Gait Mate and Vista 32 bit compatible.
To receive your free
upgrade, Call 877-994-6776 or 954-385-4660
*A $10 charge for shipping and
handling will be applied
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Hartford,
CT |
1/24 |
Louisville, KY |
1/24 |
Minneapolis, MN |
1/24 |
Los
Angeles, CA |
1/31 |
Indianapolis, IN |
1/31 |
Columbia,
SC |
1/31 |
Denver,
CO |
1/31 |
Seattle,
WA |
2/7 |
Atlanta,
GA |
2/7 |
Wichita,
KS |
2/7 |
Albuquerque, MN |
2/14 |
Newark,
NJ |
2/14 |
San
Francisco, CA |
2/21 |
Boston,
MA |
2/21 |
Nashville, TN |
2/21 |
Little
Rock, AR |
2/21 |
Phoenix,
AZ |
2/28 |
Providence, RI |
2/28 |
Miami, FL |
2/28 |
Chicago,
IL |
2/28 |
Dallas,
TX |
3/7 |
Long
Island, NY |
3/7 |
Norfolk,
VA |
3/7 |
Lincoln,
NE |
3/7 |
Spokane,
WA |
3/14 |
Scranton,
PA |
3/14 |
Raleigh,
NC |
3/14 |
Salt Lake
City, UT |
3/21 |
Columbus,
OH |
3/21 |
Portland,
ME |
3/21 |
Spartanburg, SC |
3/21 |
Birmingham, AL |
3/21 |
San
Diego, CA |
3/28 |
Kalamazoo, MI |
3/28 |
Roanoke,
VA |
3/28 |
Green
Bay, WI |
3/28 |
El Paso,
TX |
4/4 |
Syracuse,
NY |
4/4 |
Orlando,
FL |
4/4 |
Des
Moines, IA |
4/4 |
Boise, ID |
4/18 |
New York,
NY |
4/18 |
Baltimore, MD |
4/18 |
Kansas
City, MO |
4/18 |
Sioux
Falls, SD |
4/18 |
Tucson,
AZ |
4/25 |
Philadelphia, PA |
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Savannah,
GA |
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Baton
Rouge, LA |
4/25 |
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What
Providers are saying about the IM Gait Mate:
"Although “pre-gait” skills such as weight shifting,
unilateral stance and limb advancement are important skills
to achieve in order to walk, the only true way to practice
walking is to walk. The smooth transition between phases of
the gait cycle is an integrated activity that is difficult
to learn through practice of individual parts. Utilizing the
IM Gait Mate to reeducate a client’s walking pattern is a
goal-oriented approach that requires the client to solve a
movement problem to successfully achieve the goal (accurate
trigger hit). The client is not just responding to commands
given by the therapist, but also organizing internal and
environmental resources to alter motor output and accurately
hit the trigger.
When using
the IM Gait Mate, the goal may be to improve biomechanics,
alter gait speed, or increase stride length. It is important
to evaluate the client’s current walking speed and set the
initial tempo of the IM Gait Mate at a similar speed, often
between 65-75 beats per minute. When a client has altered
biomechanics, forcing them to walk at too slow of a pace can
be extremely challenging and often results in further
altering the client’s gait pattern. Walking on the treadmill
with the IM Gait Mate is a powerful tool as the repetitions
can be set very high and the client can practice walking for
several minutes. The therapist can use tactile cues to
improve the client’s gait pattern. Improvement in gait
pattern will be rewarded with more accurate auditory
biofeedback from the Interactive Metronome."
Shelley
Thomas, MPT
Idaho Elks Rehab
Click here
to
Watch the IM
Gait Mate Demo Video
The IM Gait Mate is a
therapy modality for improving a patient's:
•
Stride Length
• Heel Strike
• Gait Stamina
• Weight Shifting
• Quality of Movement
that
works by improving motor planning, sequencing,
coordination and balance.
The
Interactive Metronome’s steady auditory beat cues the
patient to walk. The IM Gait Mate’s wireless insole
detects when the patient performs a heel strike. The IM
Gait Mate provides the patient with auditory feedback as
they walk instructing them to speed up if they are
walking too slowly or to slow down if they are shuffling
or dropping their foot too quickly. The patient receives
no positive feedback if there is no heel strike.
The IM
Gait Mate provides interactive repetition while it
engages the patient and gives them real-time feedback
about their performance. As they adjust their gait it
continues to reward and instruct them so that they are
constantly improving and exercising.
The IM
Gait Mate is the only gait therapy device to engage,
encourage and provide feedback to the patient during
walking exercises at a price that therapy clinics can
afford.
Patients with the following conditions may benefit from
the IM Gait Mate:
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Spinal Cord Injury
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Cerebral Vascular Accident (Stroke)
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Brain Injury
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Muscular Dystrophy
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Parkinson’s Disease
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Multiple Sclerosis
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Cerebral Palsy
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Lower Extremity Joint Pain
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Amputee (prosthetic fitting and training)
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Balance / Coordination / Postural Training in
Sitting or Standing
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Joint Replacement/Fracture
So
take the next step with your patients...
The Interactive Metronome and the IM Gait Mate.
For
more info visit
www.IMGaitMate.com
For
Pricing Information please contact your sales
representative at
877-994-6776 (US Only) or 954-385-4660
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Brain
Bloggin' with Dr. Kevin McGrew
Brain Clock Research Bytes #3: Timing-based
interventions improve gait (Parkinson's), stroke rehab,
and golf
http://www.ticktockbraintalk.blogspot.com/ |
I've found a number of new (or
recent) studies supporting the importance of the brain clock in
a variety of areas. Below are the brief bytes....check out
articles for detailed information.
Yet another study (Hausdorff et al., 2007) dealing with
Parkinson's (a clinical disordery that appears to involve a
dysfunctional internal timing-click here for prior posts), this
time the use of the RAS (rapid auditory stimulation) therapy to
improve gait functioning.
Abstract: Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) walk
with a shortened stride length and high stride-to-stride
variability, a measure associated with fall risk. Rhythmic
auditory stimulation (RAS) improves stride length but the
effects on stride-to-stride variability, a marker of fall risk,
are unknown. The effects of RAS on stride time variability,
swing time variability and spatial-temporal measures were
examined during 100-m walks with the RAS beat set to 100 and
110% of each subject’s usual cadence in 29 patients with
idiopathic PD and 26 healthy age-matched controls. Carryover
effects were also evaluated. During usual walking, variability
was significantly higher (worse) in the patients with PD
compared with the controls (P < 0.01). For the patients with PD,
RAS at 100% improved gait speed, stride length and swing time (P
< 0.02) but did not significantly affect variability. With RAS
at 110%, reductions in variability were also observed (P < 0.03)
and these effects persisted 2 and 15 min later. In the control
subjects, the positive effects of RAS were not observed. For
example, RAS increased stride time variability at 100 and 110%.
These results demonstrate that RAS enables more automatic
movement and reduces stride-to-stride variability in patients
with PD. Further, these improvements are not simply a by-product
of changes in speed or stride length. After walking with RAS,
there also appears to be a carryover effect that supports the
possibility of motor plasticity in the networks controlling
rhythmicity in PD and the potential for using RAS as an
intervention to improve mobility and reduce fall risk.
The original Libkuman et al.
(2002) study (well designed IMHO) demonstrating the positive
effects of the brain-clock based Groove treament (based on the
Interactive Metronome technology) on improved golf performance.
[see conflict of interest disclosure post]
Abstract: In this
experiment, the authors investigated the influence of training
in timing on performance accuracy in golf. During pre- and
posttesting, 40 participants hit golf balls with 4 different
clubs in a golf course simulator. The dependent measure was the
distance in feet that the ball ended from the target. Between
the pre- and posttest, participants in the experimental
condition received 10 hr of timing training with an instrument
that was designed to train participants to tap their hands and
feet in synchrony with target sounds. The participants in the
control condition read literature about how to improve their
golf swing. The results indicated that the participants in the
experimental condition significantl improved their accuracy
relative to the participants in the control condition, who did
not show any improvement. We concluded that training in timing
leads to improvement in accuracy, and that our results have
implications for training in golf as well as other complex motor
activities.
And yet another positive RAS
stroke study by the Thaut et al. (2007) research group
Abstract: Objectives: The
effectiveness of 2 different types of gait trainingi n stroke
rehabilitation, rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) versus
neurodevelopmental therapy (NDT)/Bobath-based training, was
compared in 2 groups of hemiparetic stroke patients over a
3-week period of daily training (RAS group, n = 43; NDT/Bobath
group =35). Methods.Mean entry date into the study was 21.3 days
poststroke for the RAS group and 22.3 days for the control
group. Patients entered the study as soon as they were able to
complete 5 stride cycles with handheld assistance. Patients were
closely equated by age, gender,and lesion site. Motor function
in both groups was preassessed by the Barthel Index and the Fugl-Meyer
Scales. Results. Pre- to posttest measures showed a significant
improvement in the RAS group for velocity (P = .006), stride
length (P = .0001), cadence (P = .0001) and symmetry (P = .0049)
over the NDT/Bobath group. Effect sizes for RAS over NDT/Bobath
training were 13.1 m/min for velocity, 0.18 m for stride length,
and 19 steps/min for cadence. Conclusions. The data show that
after 3 weeks of gait training, RAS is an effective therapeutic
method to enhance gait training in hemiparetic stroke
rehabilitation. Gains were significantly higher for RAS compared
to NDT/Bobath training.
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