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Body Weight Supported Treadmill

Body weight-supported treadmill training is a gait rehabilitation approach where patients walk on a treadmill while wearing a harness to reduce ground reaction force. Therapists manually guide the patient's limbs to achieve stepping motions. This technique was initially developed for spinal cord injury but is now used for other conditions such as stroke and traumatic brain injury. Robotic devices have been introduced to increase the volume of stepping practice and computer systems can precisely regulate body weight support.

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Body Weight Supported Treadmill

Body weight-supported treadmill training is a gait rehabilitation approach where patients walk on a treadmill while wearing a harness to reduce ground reaction force. Therapists manually guide the patient's limbs to achieve stepping motions. This technique was initially developed for spinal cord injury but is now used for other conditions such as stroke and traumatic brain injury. Robotic devices have been introduced to increase the volume of stepping practice and computer systems can precisely regulate body weight support.

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BODY WEIGHT–SUPPORTED

TREADMILL TRAINING
BODY WEIGHT–SUPPORTED TREADMILL TRAINING

• It is a more recently developed approach to gait


rehabilitation being utilized with increasing
frequency for patients with diminished or absent
supraspinal control.
• Although this technique was initially developed
and then used with varying degrees of success
following SCI, BWSTT has since been a
component of locomotor rehabilitation for
patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI),
Parkinson’s disease, and lumbar stenosis among
other conditions.
• BWSTT employs upright walking on a motorized treadmill while the
patient wears a suspension harness to reduce ground reaction force
(or GRF) by a specified percentage.
• Typically, two therapists (and sometimes a third to facilitate upright
posture) manually position and guide each lower limb to achieve
repetitive, rhythmic stepping motions.
• To reduce therapist effort and improve the repeatability of
locomotor training, commercially available robotic devices have
been developed to increase the volume of stepping practice.
• Another proposed technologic refinement in the setting of
hemiparetic gait has been a computer-controlled, dynamic system
to precisely regulate the magnitude and timing—with respect to
gait cycle events—of body weight support provided to the user
• DeLisa'sPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Principles and Practice, Two Volume

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