Pneumex Unweighted treadmill
Unweighting is defined as applying a vertical support to a patient in order to lessen weight-bearing stress. As seen in the picture, the Noramco PT50.1 treadmill uses a harness system to lift you and literally make you lighter on your feet. We can take as much as 120 pounds of weight off your frame, which can accelerate the healing process for lumbar and lower extremity injuries in a number of ways.
Decreasing weight-bearing stress allows the rehabilitation and healing of injured tissue to begin sooner, utilizing task-specific functional exercises without the pain. If you have a postsurgical weight-bearing restriction of 50%, we can take 50% of your body off of you and allow you to train in a partial weight-bearing environment.
By taking weight off your frame, thus decreasing the effects of gravity on your joints, we can effectively treat patients with conditions like osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. We are the ONLY physical therapy treatment center that offers this technology in the Lehigh Valley. Check out http://www.pneumex.com/id32.html to see a video tutorial on the many uses of our Unweighting treadmill.
