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The TherapyTrainer Cardio
PC Interface has a built-in wireless Polar® heart rate receiver, and comes with
a Polar® wireless chest strap sensor. It connects to your PC through a USB port.
Your heart rate and exercise progress are automatically logged for you. It can
also be used to interact with driving and racing games on your PC. The faster
you pedal, the faster your character/vehicle goes in the game.
Patients
recovering from cardiac problems are often asked to exercise and maintain a
certain heart rate while exercising. The “Heart Monitor and Chest Strap” comes
with the TherapyTrainer will allow the patient to do this accurately from home
with the TherapyTrainer. Cardiac patients who have access to the TherapyTrainer,
even after recovery, will only continue to get stronger. Cardiac patients often
relapse and experience set backs regularly due to depression and lack of
exercise equipment that will fit in to their smaller sized homes. The benefits
from a cardiac patient having access to continued physical exercise, with a log
that a doctor could monitor during annual visits, could be an “invaluable” tool
in helping a doctor better recognize future problems.
The TherapyTrainer
is the Ultimate tool in road to recovery!
• Physical
Therapists/Physician using the TherapyTrainer for upper and lower extremity
injuries. Having better knowledge of what routine the patient is following
between visits--whether exercising under, over or right on target. This allows
the patient and the Therapist to reach their targeted recovery the safest and
quickest way possible. Reviewing the tracking log prior to or during a visit,
the Physical Therapist/Physician can evaluate the progress, or lack there of,
with the patient and use the information in the tracking log to make adjustments
for patients home therapy sessions. By providing the patient this tool and the
help of their Physical Therapist/Physician, it will keep their motivation up and
help to stop those set backs in their recovery. Set backs can mean additional
surgery, additional physical therapy, lost job time for the patient, etc... All
costing the insurance companies more money.
• Shoulder injuries can be
costly, known to have a long recovery time as well as continued reoccurring
problems. By setting the TherapyTrainer on a sturdy table or counter, a patient
can stand with their arm extended straight out to the side of their body, grab
the pedal and move their arm/shoulder in a circular motion, making sure that
they maintain flexibility throughout their recovery and thereafter. An injured
shoulder that is not exercised will become stiff and unmovable and may even
require additional surgery to allow movement again.
• Physical therapy
for stroke or disabled patients will greatly benefit from cycle therapy. With
the right hand, they are able to pedal the bike and their left arm will also be
getting the physical exercise that it needs.
• Amputees must keep up
their upper body strength. The TherapyTrainer has proved invaluable in helping
in this area.
• So many Military men and women are returning from Iraq
with injuries that require extended hospitalization. It has been widely
documented detailing the struggles they go through to become well enough to
leave the hospital and return to the families that love them. During physical
therapy in the hospital settings, they are there to encourage each other,
compete with each other and motivate each other to reach their goals and to not
let each other give up. The bonds they create are irreplaceable! Once they reach
their goals they go home to their families and they are no longer in contact
with the ones who were invaluable to their recovery. Many of these Veterans
suffer depression and set backs that require them to have to return to the
hospital. Depression, violence to family and attempted suicides along with the
physical set back of just giving up. Veterans with TherapyTrainer’s would be
able to maintain that connection with the buddies they went through therapy
with. The TherapyTrainer can track the workout while a user is on-line playing
games, virtual reality worlds, etc. Veterans who are no longer in the hospital
together, but may live thousands of miles away from each other, can meet up
on-line everyday and work out together just like they did in the hospital.
Allowing them to keep intact the bonds that helped them become well enough to
leave the hospital in the first place. Voice capability would allow them to
converse with each other in the same way they did in the hospital. By helping
these injured Veterans maintain their bonds with each other, we just may be
helping them to not experience the debilitating depression that so many are now
suffering. No one understands what they went through or what they are going
through now more than their military buddies.
Comments from Physical
Therapists that have been using the TherapyTrainer…
• Elderly patients do not
experience the stability and mobility issues when they are able to use a
TherapyTrainer vs. a stationary or recumbent bike.
• The Physical
Therapists that have patients with a TherapyTrainer in their homes are seeing a
very exciting achievement in the reduction of pain medication consumed by those
patients. When a patient has access to the TherapyTrainer in their home they are
able to turn to the TherapyTrainer to help them in the “locked or cramping
sensations.” The result is large reduction in the consumption of pain killers,
Physical Therapists ecstatic!
• Occupational Therapists are using the
bike to aide their patients in strengthening their grips. In the coming weeks we
will be meeting with several Occupational Therapists to discuss designing
handles that will replace the pedals in the shapes of wrenches, screw drivers,
machine handles, etc.
• The first major step in Physical Therapy is for
patients to reach a mobility that allows them to begin the “pedal” portion of
their therapy. The patients with access to a TherapyTrainer are able to start
the “pedal” therapy much sooner because of the smaller pedal radius of the
TherapyTrainer. This not only speeds up the patient’s recovery physically but is
a big mental boost for them.
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