SECTION 1: ABOUT THE GAME READY RENTAL PROGRAM

This full-service rental program provides your practice with access to (5) GRPro 2.1 and (1) Med4Elite. The cost to participate in this rental program is $500 per month for the use of:

• GRPro 2.1 (5 units) • Med4Elite (1 unit)

While purchasing the equipment outright can be prohibitively expensive for many practices, the full-service rental program offers the Game Ready equipment at an affordable cost, freeing up cash flow.

It also means your practice will always have the most up-to-date equipment and technology. As new technology comes available, Game Ready will switch out your units.

GAME READY MODELS

GRPro 2.1

This portable cold and compression system helps reduce opioid consumption, decrease pain and swelling, increase post-op range of motion, and increase satisfaction with the recovery process. This system provides faster, deeper-penetrating, and longer-lasting cooling in treating injuries and surgery recovery.

Med4Elite

This multi-modality, dualuser recovery system integrates cryotherapy, thermotherapy, rapid contrast therapy (RCT), and intermittent pneumatic compression therapy (IPC) for surgery recovery and chronic injury. This machine helps decrease pain and swelling, reduces opioid consumption, reduces joint and muscle stiffness, and increases blood flow to the treatment area.

BENEFITS OF THE PROGRAM

1. Increased Revenue

As reimbursement levels continue to be reduced, the Game Ready/VGM Therapy rental program allows for new revenue sources. That means new dollars in workers’ compensation and other patient/care segments.

2. Cost Effectiveness

Game Ready and VGM Therapy have created a cost-effective, revenue generating program that can grow your PT business.

3. New Referral Sources

By participating in this program, PT practices will have the resources and ability to leverage new referral sources and grow revenue generating partnerships.

4. New Technology

Through the Game Ready and VGM Therapy program, your practice will always have the most up-to-date equipment and technology.

Game Ready will switch out your unit as new technology is developed.

Using the GRPro® 2.1 Cold & Compression Therapy System

Seven post-market clinical follow-up studies have been completed, evaluating the benefits of Game Ready’s cold and compression therapy system for total knee arthroplasty (TKA), anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction [2 studies], total hip arthroplasty (THA), hip arthroscopy, adult lumbar spinal surgery, and scoliosis surgery patients. Benefits of using the Game Ready system after surgery are listed below.

• Reduces patient opioid consumption and may allow for earlier discontinuation of opioid medications in certain patients

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• May increase patient satisfaction with the recovery process 1,2,5 • Increased post-operative range of motion in ACL patients 4 • Decreases pain 1,5,8 • Lower postoperative blood loss 8 • May lead to early hospital discharge [shorter length of stay] in some patients.

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Study 1: Increased Patient Satisfaction

The study: Pain, swelling, and inflammation are expected during the recovery from total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery. But can a device like Game Ready help? To find out, a prospective, multi-center, randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of a cryopneumatic device on post-operative TKA recovery. The results: Researchers found that the device did help reduce the need for narcotic medication in the first two weeks following the operation. And, there was a trend toward longer distances achieved in the six-minute walk test (6MWT). The biggest difference, however, was patient satisfaction. Patients who used the cryopneumatic cooling regimen showed significantly higher satisfaction rates than those with the control treatment.

Learn more in “A prospective, multi-center,

randomised trial to evaluate the efficacy of a cryopneumatic device on total knee

arthroplasty recovery,” published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 94-B, Supple A: 153-6.

Study 2: Reduced Pain and Shorter Hospital Stays

The study: Both pneumatic compression and cryotherapy have been successfully used to manage acute tissue damage. Researchers tested what effect the Game Ready System (GRS)—which combines cyclic compression and cryotherapy—would have in total hip arthroplasty (THA).

The results: What they found pointed to less use of pain medication, shorter hospital stays, less wound discharge, and less pain at six weeks following the operation.

Learn more in “Cryocompression therapy after elective arthroplasty of the hip,” published in Hip International, 22 (05): 527-533.

The study: While cryotherapy has been shown to decrease postoperative pain after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, less is known of the effects of combined cryotherapy and compression. To learn more, researchers looked at subjective and objective patient outcomes following ACL reconstruction, comparing combined compression and cryotherapy to traditional ice therapy alone.

The results: Based on their findings, the use of combined cryotherapy and compression in the postoperative period after ACL reconstruction results in improved short-term pain relief and a greater likelihood of independence from narcotic use compared with cryotherapy alone.

Learn more in “The efficacy of combined

cryotherapy compression compared with cryotherapy alone following anterior cruciate

ligament reconstruction,” published in The Journal of Knee Surgery 25 (02): 155-160. The study: Cryotherapy is a useful adjunctive analgesic measure in patients with postoperative pain following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery. And past research shows either static permanent compression or dynamic intermittent compression can be added to increase the analgesic effect of cryotherapy. Researchers aimed to determine which compression method provided the best results.

The results: Dynamic intermittent compression combined with cryotherapy (i.e., Game Ready) decreases analgesic drug requirements after ACL reconstruction and improves the postoperative recovery of range of knee motion.

Learn more in “Cryotherapy with dynamic

intermittent compression for analgesia after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.

Preliminary study,” published in Orthopaedics & Traumatology: Surgery & Research 100: 309-312, 2014.

LEARN MORE AND GET STARTED

For more information and to get started with this Game Ready program offered on behalf of VGM Therapy, contact Miranda Murphy by email Miranda.Murphy@vgm.com or by phone 855-458-6972.