NEW NxStep Unweighing System

The Biodex NxStep™ Unweighing System enables partial weight-bearing therapy with open access to the patient. Offloading a percentage of body weight allows the opportunity for early rehabilitation while providing a safe environment for patient and therapist. Therapists can focus on treating their patients, manually facilitating lower extremities. 

The dynamic, single-point suspension of NxStep accommodates pelvic rotation and vertical displacement. This encouragement of proper mechanics allows functional gait patterns to be practiced. When used in combination with the Biodex Gait Trainer, a comprehensive gait training environment complete with audio cueing and visual biofeedback, is possible.

Gait Kinematics  
NxStep™ Unweighing System allows full and partial weight bearing without compromising proper gait kinematics. Depending on walking speed, up to four inches of vertical displacement is permitted while the system maintains a consistent level of unweighing.

The ability to allow pelvic rotation has its own advantages. Unlike two-point suspension systems that have a tendency to restrict rotation on a horizontal plane, the single-point method of NxStep permits functional pelvic rotation and versatility when walking, side-stepping, retro-walking and turning. Patients can engage in reactive postural control exercises or change direction without repositioning the entire support system. 

The unique, forward corner-mounted design of NxStep enables many advantages. Therapists can view patients from all angles; patients have full visibility of treadmill display and, the open design allows natural arm swing, an essential component to encourage neuroplasticity.

Safe Patient Handling

While essential to invest in equipment and training to prevent patient falls, it is equally important to protect therapists, rehabilitation nurses, caregivers and visiting family from injury when trying to lift or support a patient.

Currently eleven states have enacted “Safe Patient Handling” laws that improve safety for both patient and healthcare provider. Powered lift-assist devices promote rehabilitation and facilitate functional recovery – while maintaining safe conditions.

GAIT TRAINER 3 + UNWEIGHING The Biodex Gait Training System The Gait Trainer provides audio cueing and visual biofeedback of step length and step speed. The NxStep Unweighing System provides partial body-weight support, helping patients regain their confidence, their strength and their stride. The Unweighing System, combined with the Gait Trainer 3, allows every patient the opportunity to get an early start on rehabilitation.

• Full Patient Access – open frame design encourages therapist facilitation and clears an unobstructed forward view for patients.
• One-Handed Control – press a button to raise or lower patient; another to set unweighing load.
• Counters Harness Slippage – Auto Unload feature compensates for potential harness movement due to slippage or posture changes.
• Convenient Control – newly designed hand-held remote can be magnetically attached anywhere on the frame.
• Safe Environment – dynamic, single-point suspension is safer for patients and negates the need for therapist support and risk of personal injury.
• Pelvic Stabilization – possible as single- or two-point stabilization with retention cords.
• Tall and Small – from pediatric to 6' 3" when standing over a treadmill with a 7" step-up, such as the Gait Trainer 3.  
• Get Comfortable – therapist seat can easily be moved along the base of the frame or from side-to-side. A second seat is available separately.
• Handrails As Needed – easily removable for specific balance training exercise.
• Room-to-Room – collapses to 32" (81 cm) wide to fit through standard door frames.

NEW Standard Unweighing Harness

The question isn’t whether to offload a patient’s weight, but how. What factors to consider should be textbook, allowing the biomechanics of gait without impeding movement. The Biodex Unweighing Harness is designed to provide vertical lift through three shared points of pressure: through the hip straps, gluteal fold straps and the lumbar-thoracic harness. Its secure fit with maximum support offers comfort without limiting lower extremity range of motion. Assuring that the patient is comfortable is essential when lengthy exercise sessions are required. The NxStep Unweighing System allows the necessary movements to replicate natural ambulation – uniquely offered with Biodex design. The new Auto Unload feature compensates for any harness slippage, maintaining unloaded amount and position throughout the exercise.

Take it a step further and partner the NxStep Unweighing System with the Biodex Gait Trainer. This combination provides the safety to treat people with movement disorders, and the biofeedback technology with objective reporting to prove need, progress and outcome.

Applications

• Stroke
• Spinal Cord
• Head Injury
• Amputees
• Orthopedic
• Neurologic
• Vestibular
• Older Adult