THERAPY & PRACTICE
“Don’t talk – walk!” – the gait lab at the DianaKlinik Bad Bevensen A special kind of circuit training. Since September 2020, one of the largest rehabilitation clinics in northern Germany has been offering its patients innovative gait rehabilitation. Mareike Hoffmann
In 2018, when the DianaKlinik Bad Bevensen was considering how to evolve its physiotherapy offering, several aspects of the therapy were revised. Existing group sessions were adapted in terms of content and structured to build on each other. Overall, the group therapies were meaningful, but there was an incentive to optimise them even more. According to current guidelines, a post-stroke patient should walk about 800 steps a day. This is not feasible with conventional therapy
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and above all in a group setting. And so, the purchase of a gait trainer was on the agenda. Trade fairs and symposia – including the 9th THERA-Trainer Symposium on the topic “Use of robotics in modern gait rehabilitation” – were used to gather information. Further training in “Neurophysiotherapy” reinforced the idea again, and so we decided on a completely new concept: the existing equipment was to be supplemented by the THERA-Trainer complete solution and presented arranged in a circle as a gait lab.
