SCROLLATOR FROM GAITMASTER
The Scrollator is a gait trainer, it is a four wheeled device designed to assist those who are unable to walk independently. It supports the user to adopt and keep an upright posture. It helps them to learn or relearn to walk safely and efficiently from static to dynamic as part of gait training. The Scrollator is intended for children or adults with physical disabilities, to provide the opportunity to improve walking ability. Designed to promote postural alignment to enable static and dynamic exercise gait practice. It functions as a support walker and provides more assistance for balance and weight-bearing, than does a traditional rollator walker, or a walker with platform attachments. It also provides opportunities to stand and to bear weight in a safe, supported position.
Various movement disorders that result in the inability to walk independently, necessitates the use of the Scrollator the ultimate gait trainer. Locomotor disability may be due to a medical condition from childhood, such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or other developmental disabilities. Walking impairment may also be due to a later injury or illness, such as a traumatic brain injury, incomplete spinal cord injury or stroke. Regardless of the cause of diisability, the child or adult may learn to walk, or recover the ability to walk, through walking practice. Recent discoveries in the field of neuroplasticity indicate the human potential for improvement in motor skills through activity-based therapy, despite neural damage from condition or injury. Although total independence in gait may not be achieved in every case, significant gains can be made in muscle strength and neuromotor control for walking, through locomotor training.In adult rehabilitation, gait training is traditionally performed initially within parallel bars as the most stable assistive device. With the Scrollator as static balance improves, a patient can progress to dynamic walk. This gait training typically occurs during physical therapy sessions. The more recent development of body-weight support gait training, such as over a treadmill, can enable considerably more walking practice with less strain to the therapist, when compared to traditional gait training.
In adult rehabilitation, the use of body-weight support (BWS) systems enables patients to walk safely with less effort. Body-weight support systems enable walking practice over a treadmill. Or, they may enable walking over ground from a mobile device or ceiling track. Because of the support provided by the system, the strain to the therapist is reduced. This, along with the patient being adequately supported for balance and weight bearing assist, increases the duration of walking practice. This effective therapy increases potential for motor skill gains.[7][8] The more opportunity for practice and repetitions of step-taking, the more likely is the patient to regain walking ability.
The use of over ground support walkers as an approach for gait training for the adult population is another recent development in adult rehabilitation. The value of over ground gait trainers is that these devices are typically more affordable than BWS systems, and they enable additional walking practice beyond the physical therapy session, whether in the institution or in the patient's home or community environment. By using a gait trainer for over ground walking practice, the patient has support for balance and can now incorporate walking practice into his or her daily routine. For example, rather than remaining in a wheelchair between gait therapy sessions, an individual can use the over ground gait trainer for walking practice to and from the cafeteria within an institution, or while at a mall when out in the community. Early research indicates that sufficient over ground locomotor training may result in equivalent or possibly greater improvements in walking capacity as compared to the body-weight support treadmill training.[9][10][11] The over ground walking practice is a closer replication to the real-world task of walking. The voluntary effort of step initiation and forward progression is essential for walking over ground, and these devices enable the patient to learn how to generate and control these motor forces in a way that is not available on a treadmill.The Scrollator from GM is designed to help people regain their strength, balance, range of motion, and independence. For people recovering from injuries, illnesses, and other debilitating conditions, Scrollator is an important items of physical therapy, rehabilitation, and exercise equipment. It is especially useful in improving upper and lowerbody strength. It can be used for a variety of exercises such as balance training, weight-bearing like dips it is a potential replacement for the parallel bars counterpart. and walking. Like parallel bars the Scrollator provides upright support for patients who have some difficulty standing upright when walking on their own. Its use can help patients regain their confidence and independence. Designed to help the patient with non-locomotor aerobic rote exercises to locomoter rote exercise routines, to support the patient to advance from static gait to dynamic gait.
Scrollator is used during physical therapy and rehabilitation as a support tool to provide a safe way to work on skills like gait training and ballance.
If you have an injury or illness that limits your ability to walk, you may work with a physical therapist or at home during your recovery. Your physical therapist will use different methods and modalities to help you as you work on regaining your strength, balance, and mobility. The Scrollator in its fixed mode is a great alternative to 'parallel bars' which are used in the physical therapy clinic to offer you and your physical therapist a safe and stable way to workout on full body aerobic exercises.
Conditions The Scrollator Addresses
Just about anyone who is working on gait training (improvement of walking ability) can benefit from using the scrollator.
Specific conditions that the scrollator :
Stroke
Multiple sclerosis
Parkinson's desease
Lower extremity fracture
Spinal cord injuries
Lower extremity amputation
Knee or hip surgery
Severe muscle weakness
Any condition that causes difficulty with walking and mobility may require the use of the Scrollator during rehab. The Scrollator provides stability and safety while you are regaining strength and mobility.
Gait Training
When you are learning to walk again, your physical therapist may use the scrollator to provide you with extra support in an uprighht posture.
Examples of situations when Scrollators are used:
While exercising to use the assistive device, lose your balance to one side or the other, the scrollator will be there to keep you upright at all times.
may be used for upper body you to push up with. The adjustable height of the bars allows you to get the right angle of push when rising from sitting.
If you have had a lower extremity amputation, the parallel bars can give you extra upper extremity support while you are learning to walk with your new prosthesis. As you recover, you can rely less and less on the parallel bars and more and more on your own strength.
Some physical therapy clinics have body weight-supported gait training devices to help people walk.9 These harnesses are attached to a stable structure (like the wall or ceiling) and may move along tracks while you are wearing a harness.
These devices are used to take some weight off while you are learning to walk again with full weight bearing. The use of parallel bars with body weight-supported gait devices may be helpful in adding extra security to the rehab session.
Lower Extremity Exercise
Scrollator is designed to be used in the physical therapy clinic and in the home, for lower extremity exercises. The bars allow you to hold on, tightly or gently, as you exercise.
Common exercises done in parallel bars may include:
Mini squats
Standing hip flexion
Standing leg raises
Heel raises
Toe raises
Physical therapists use a variety of devices and exercises to target muscles and overall mobility skills. Scrollator can be used to help build many physical skills, besides gait training and strengthening the lower extremities.
Balance
Since the Scrollator can be stable in the fixed mode, your physical therapist may have you use it with the full range of non-locomotive balance exercises.
Single-leg standing exercises may be done, and a pillow of foam can be added under your feet for an added challenge.10
You may perform the tandem stance and walk (heel-to-toe stance) to challenge your balance in the parallel bars.11
Upper Extremity
After an upper extremity injury, your physical therapist may have you use parallel bars during your rehab. While standing within the Scrollator, you may perform tricep dips with your feet on the floor. This helps to strengthen your triceps muscles that extend your elbows and may be important for helping you rise from a chair.
Shoulder stretches may also be done with the Scrollator as with parallel bars. With the bars raised to their maximum height, your physical therapist may have you utilize the bars to stretch your pectoralis (chest) muscles, shoulder muscles, or latissimus (back) muscles.
If you have been injured, ill, or are recovering from surgery, you may need to work with a physical therapist to gain strength and mobility or to learn to walk again. Your physical therapist may use parallel bars during your rehab to provide a safe and secure place for you to work on strength and gait training. By maintaining safety, you can be sure to quickly get back to your maximal level of function.
Various movement disorders that result in the inability to walk independently, necessitates the use of the Scrollator the ultimate gait trainer. Locomotor disability may be due to a medical condition from childhood, such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or other developmental disabilities. Walking impairment may also be due to a later injury or illness, such as a traumatic brain injury, incomplete spinal cord injury or stroke. Regardless of the cause of diisability, the child or adult may learn to walk, or recover the ability to walk, through walking practice. Recent discoveries in the field of neuroplasticity indicate the human potential for improvement in motor skills through activity-based therapy, despite neural damage from condition or injury. Although total independence in gait may not be achieved in every case, significant gains can be made in muscle strength and neuromotor control for walking, through locomotor training.In adult rehabilitation, gait training is traditionally performed initially within parallel bars as the most stable assistive device. With the Scrollator as static balance improves, a patient can progress to dynamic walk. This gait training typically occurs during physical therapy sessions. The more recent development of body-weight support gait training, such as over a treadmill, can enable considerably more walking practice with less strain to the therapist, when compared to traditional gait training.
In adult rehabilitation, the use of body-weight support (BWS) systems enables patients to walk safely with less effort. Body-weight support systems enable walking practice over a treadmill. Or, they may enable walking over ground from a mobile device or ceiling track. Because of the support provided by the system, the strain to the therapist is reduced. This, along with the patient being adequately supported for balance and weight bearing assist, increases the duration of walking practice. This effective therapy increases potential for motor skill gains.[7][8] The more opportunity for practice and repetitions of step-taking, the more likely is the patient to regain walking ability.
The use of over ground support walkers as an approach for gait training for the adult population is another recent development in adult rehabilitation. The value of over ground gait trainers is that these devices are typically more affordable than BWS systems, and they enable additional walking practice beyond the physical therapy session, whether in the institution or in the patient's home or community environment. By using a gait trainer for over ground walking practice, the patient has support for balance and can now incorporate walking practice into his or her daily routine. For example, rather than remaining in a wheelchair between gait therapy sessions, an individual can use the over ground gait trainer for walking practice to and from the cafeteria within an institution, or while at a mall when out in the community. Early research indicates that sufficient over ground locomotor training may result in equivalent or possibly greater improvements in walking capacity as compared to the body-weight support treadmill training.[9][10][11] The over ground walking practice is a closer replication to the real-world task of walking. The voluntary effort of step initiation and forward progression is essential for walking over ground, and these devices enable the patient to learn how to generate and control these motor forces in a way that is not available on a treadmill.The Scrollator from GM is designed to help people regain their strength, balance, range of motion, and independence. For people recovering from injuries, illnesses, and other debilitating conditions, Scrollator is an important items of physical therapy, rehabilitation, and exercise equipment. It is especially useful in improving upper and lowerbody strength. It can be used for a variety of exercises such as balance training, weight-bearing like dips it is a potential replacement for the parallel bars counterpart. and walking. Like parallel bars the Scrollator provides upright support for patients who have some difficulty standing upright when walking on their own. Its use can help patients regain their confidence and independence. Designed to help the patient with non-locomotor aerobic rote exercises to locomoter rote exercise routines, to support the patient to advance from static gait to dynamic gait.
Scrollator is used during physical therapy and rehabilitation as a support tool to provide a safe way to work on skills like gait training and ballance.
If you have an injury or illness that limits your ability to walk, you may work with a physical therapist or at home during your recovery. Your physical therapist will use different methods and modalities to help you as you work on regaining your strength, balance, and mobility. The Scrollator in its fixed mode is a great alternative to 'parallel bars' which are used in the physical therapy clinic to offer you and your physical therapist a safe and stable way to workout on full body aerobic exercises.
Conditions The Scrollator Addresses
Just about anyone who is working on gait training (improvement of walking ability) can benefit from using the scrollator.
Specific conditions that the scrollator :
Stroke
Multiple sclerosis
Parkinson's desease
Lower extremity fracture
Spinal cord injuries
Lower extremity amputation
Knee or hip surgery
Severe muscle weakness
Any condition that causes difficulty with walking and mobility may require the use of the Scrollator during rehab. The Scrollator provides stability and safety while you are regaining strength and mobility.
Gait Training
When you are learning to walk again, your physical therapist may use the scrollator to provide you with extra support in an uprighht posture.
Examples of situations when Scrollators are used:
While exercising to use the assistive device, lose your balance to one side or the other, the scrollator will be there to keep you upright at all times.
may be used for upper body you to push up with. The adjustable height of the bars allows you to get the right angle of push when rising from sitting.
If you have had a lower extremity amputation, the parallel bars can give you extra upper extremity support while you are learning to walk with your new prosthesis. As you recover, you can rely less and less on the parallel bars and more and more on your own strength.
Some physical therapy clinics have body weight-supported gait training devices to help people walk.9 These harnesses are attached to a stable structure (like the wall or ceiling) and may move along tracks while you are wearing a harness.
These devices are used to take some weight off while you are learning to walk again with full weight bearing. The use of parallel bars with body weight-supported gait devices may be helpful in adding extra security to the rehab session.
Lower Extremity Exercise
Scrollator is designed to be used in the physical therapy clinic and in the home, for lower extremity exercises. The bars allow you to hold on, tightly or gently, as you exercise.
Common exercises done in parallel bars may include:
Mini squats
Standing hip flexion
Standing leg raises
Heel raises
Toe raises
Physical therapists use a variety of devices and exercises to target muscles and overall mobility skills. Scrollator can be used to help build many physical skills, besides gait training and strengthening the lower extremities.
Balance
Since the Scrollator can be stable in the fixed mode, your physical therapist may have you use it with the full range of non-locomotive balance exercises.
Single-leg standing exercises may be done, and a pillow of foam can be added under your feet for an added challenge.10
You may perform the tandem stance and walk (heel-to-toe stance) to challenge your balance in the parallel bars.11
Upper Extremity
After an upper extremity injury, your physical therapist may have you use parallel bars during your rehab. While standing within the Scrollator, you may perform tricep dips with your feet on the floor. This helps to strengthen your triceps muscles that extend your elbows and may be important for helping you rise from a chair.
Shoulder stretches may also be done with the Scrollator as with parallel bars. With the bars raised to their maximum height, your physical therapist may have you utilize the bars to stretch your pectoralis (chest) muscles, shoulder muscles, or latissimus (back) muscles.
If you have been injured, ill, or are recovering from surgery, you may need to work with a physical therapist to gain strength and mobility or to learn to walk again. Your physical therapist may use parallel bars during your rehab to provide a safe and secure place for you to work on strength and gait training. By maintaining safety, you can be sure to quickly get back to your maximal level of function.
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