GlideTrak™

GlideTrak™ was designed to meet requests from doctors and researchers to bring the benefits of cost-effective,  Body Weight Support Treadmill Training (BWSTT) to centers for sport training, fitness, therapy and rehabilitation.   GlideTrak's™ simple pelvic suspension system does away with uncomfortable and limiting harness based body unweighting and ultra-expensive air bag unweighting.  GlideTrak™ truely makes BWSTT accessible to every therapy and sport rehab center, large or small.  It is so affordable and effective, it is doctor recommended for home based therapy and training!

Call today and ask our representative how easy it is to lease or own your own GlideTrak™.

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 The New Standard in Body Unweighting Technology

 

GlideTrak™ is proud to offer the most comprehensive, versatile and affordable Body weight support treadmill training technology to your patients and your clinic. GlideTrak™ has been shown to alleviate harmful joint impact, allowing patients to enjoy safe, pain free exercise beyond their limitations. GlideTrak™ can accelerate recovery times for Pre and Post Operative knee surgery and hip surgery exercise with impact free, full-range movement not possible with over the ground therapy. 

The Unweighting Solution

With aging, our theraputic exercise options become more limited.   GlideTrak™ advances patients beyond low impact therapy to create a virtually unweighted walking, running and gait training experience.  With the GlideTrak™, exercise and upright mobility are now available to many more people, even those who never expected to walk or run again.  Imagine the freedom, joy and health benefits of unrestricted mobility and exercise.

 

GlideTrak™: Experience the Difference

Patients are using the GlideTrak™ in therapy and rehabilitaton clinics with remarkable results.  With GlideTrak™ unweighted therapy, patients are able to work muscles and joints through a greater range of motion for Post Operative Knee Replacement and Hip Replacement than on other exercise machines.  Additionally, patients and their therapists are reporting improvements in neurological recovery and motor development beyond what they have previously been able to achieve. 

"Once again, I had amazing results with a patient today.  I am really appreciating the motor learning component which this provides (feeding the pattern when the body isn't quite ready to perform the complex task of walking without assistance)." Michaela, MPT, Outpatient Neurological Rehabilitation, Rogue Valley Medical Center.

 

Unique Technology for Your Patients

GlideTrak's™ patented, comfortable suspension system is the first of its kind.  This revolutionary seating concept simply lifts patients by the pelvis without any pressure on sensitive perineal tissues, or relying on uncomfortable and restrictive harness systems.  Simple strap adjustments allow the desired amount of unweighting from complete (100%) unweighting to full weight bearing.

 

GlideTrak™ Versatility

The GlideTrak™ frame easily adapts to any existing treadmill in therapy clinics, retirement facilities, skilled nursing centers, health clubs, sports training centers or homes and can transform any treadmill into a highly versatile and inexpensive unweighted training system.  Locking wheels make it possible to transfer patients from a wheelchair into the saddle assembly.  Once secure in the saddle and shoulder support, patients have the option of walking about in the GlideTrak™ frame or over a treadmill. 

 

One Solution:  A Multitude of Applications

Almost everyone, regardless of age, injury or disability, can experience greatly enhanced mobility and exercise on the GlideTrak™.  Applications include:

• Knee Replacment or Hip Replacement exercise
• Orthopedic surgeries and fractures 
• Painful joints and injuries
• Neurological conditions such as post-stroke, Parkinson's, incomplete spinal cord injuries
• Geriatric balance, strength and endurance needs
• Obesity and general weight loss
• Mobility impairments, amputations and prosthetic training
• Fitness and cross training
• Sports injury rehabilitation and performance enhancement

 

GlideTrak™ Advantages for Therapy

• Extend joints fully and gain motion that cannot be achieved on other exercise equipment
• Engage more muscle groups completely than with other "low-impact" machines
• Experience powerful pain free Knee and hip replacement exercise while protecting healing or sensitive tissues from impact
• Enhance neurological recovery, motor control, gait speed and smoothness with unique GlideTrak™ seat support
• Challenge important core and postural muscles
• Provide upright and vertical activity
• Allow earlier weight bearing and safe gait training
• Experience immediate carry over to gait and functional activities
• Enjoy faster results and recovery than with other modes of treatment
• Train through injuries, favoring or protecting an injured limb as necessary
• Maintain high levels of aerobic fitness while recovering from injury
• Allow balance impaired patients to exercise safely and confidently with full support
• Enhance therapy outcomes
• GlideTrak™ unweighting is fun and FUN = Compliance
• Click the following link to learn more about unweighted therapy benefits for specific conditions:            Unweighted Training for Therapy
  

 

GlideCycle™ Products

GlideCycle™ products are so affordable that patients can continue unweighted therapy right at home.  GlideCycle™ offers the only complete system where patients trained in therapy on the GlideTrak™ are able to progress to lifelong exercise on their own GlideTrak™, the outdoor GlideCycle™ or the GC-4 pictured on the left. 

 

Great for Patients: Great for Business

Set your business apart by joining the leaders in unweighted technology and bringing all of the benefits directly to your patients and practice.  For more information, please contact GlideCycle™:

 

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Professional Evaluations:

"Once again, I had amazing results with a patient today.  I am really appreciating the motor learning component which the GlideTrak™ provides (feeding the pattern when the body isn't quite ready to perform the complex task of walking without assistance)."   Michaela Begg MSPT, Neurological Rehabilitation, Asante Medical System, Medford, Oregon. 

Body Unweighted Therapy and Exercise is so important to therapeutic outcomes that it absolutely needs to be made accessible to as many clinics as possible.  GlideTrak makes accessibility practical.  Dr. Nancy Byl, UCSF

GlideTrak allows for partial weight bearing therapy as does a therapy pool, but it also allows for sustained cardio workout plus joint movement unrestrained by water.  It is an investment that has paid off with better knee and hip recovery therapy to our patients.  Trevor, Clinical Director at Omega Sports Rehabilitation, Inc.

 

The more I am involved with training clients on the GlideTrak, the more I am amazed by the value of this incredible Body Unweighted Training System in therapy and sports.The amount of hip and leg motion, especially extension, and muscle strengthening achieved on the GlideTrak is a big plus for therapy as well as for all users, as it is greater than motion experienced during cycling, elliptical training, jogging or other exercise machines and very functional.  I am also very pleased by the level of workout you can get.

GlideTrak offers the most consistent body support between steps leading to rapid gait improvements not always achieved with other, even more expensive unweighting systems.  Also, the extra body support between steps allows pain free exercise in situations where antigravity machines may not.  Thankfully, GlideTrak is affordable so that everyone, not just elite training and therapy centers, can enjoy the benefits.   Cindy Powell, MPT, ATC, STS, Owner of Active Choice Physical Therapy, Inc.

GlideTrak provides the support to let our stroke patients feel confidence against falling while gait training.  They can move faster and safer than in a walker, and we can access limbs to assist.  Gait correction outcomes are greatly accelerated (on GlideTrak).  George Scott, Rogue Valley Medical Center, Outpatient Physical Therapy Dept.

I have seen a post polio survivor run for the first time in 55 years on our GlideTrak.  That experience alone justified our purchase.  Sandy Olney, Director, Adaptive Sports Partners of the North, Formerly, Director, Breton Woods Adaptive.

As a therapist, I can see endless applications for the GlideTrak: lower extremity injury or surgery recovery, core strengthening, balance training, general gait training, and it is very safe for patients to use, especially with the shoulder harness.  Ann, Physical Therapist, Waterford Assisted Living Facility, Medford, Oregon.

The GlideTrak was so comfortable because I felt supported and steady…I was able to go faster on the treadmill than I ever had before and I went for a half hour solid.  That is more exercise than I ever get.  Lisa, bilateral amputee, double hip replacement, Dominica Hospital volunteer therapy staff.

 

I see the GlideTrak as an important step forward to our patient services, applying safe, unweighted gait training across a wide range of pathologies.  Andrea Martin,  MPT, Dominica Hospital, Santa Cruz, CA.

Our GlideTrak is great.  It applies to sports training and orthopedic or neurological rehabilitation very well, and we have been having good response from our clients.  Last week we had a client with a c4/c5 injury who walks slowly with two canes walking normally for the first time in about a year.  Elaine, Executive Director of Omega Sports Rehabilitation and Aquatic Center, Los Gatos, CA.

GlideTrak is beneficial for a wide range of patients from Parkinson’s, MS, Stroke, Knee and Hip replacements…so pretty exciting.  We can now progress patients from our pool therapy program at about 20% weight bearing to almost 100% here.   Also this eliminates the distraction of falling.  Julie, PTA at Vassona Creek Healthcare Center, Los Gatos, CA.

I have seen GlideTrak unweighting shorten recovery times for post operative Knee Replacment, Hip Replacement, and all manner of knee and foot surgeries.  It allows for longer training periods for athletes, and I really enjoy the challenge of the workout.  Mitch Fields, owner Wellness Partners, Sacramento, CA.  916-987-4873.

What I like especially is the GlideTrak because I can get people who are rehabilitating up and walking using their muscles, increasing the range of motion of their hips and knees much faster than they would when they are in the parallel bars or a walker.  People who’ve had fractured hips, total hips, knee replacements, fractures of the tibia or femur that can’t take full weight bearing are able to get up vertical, move the joints and extend the joints completely and also completely exercise the muscles.  I just believe that this is an excellent method of increasing motion, increasing strength. It helps people psychologically because they are up and vertical and actually moving.  I feel it really has an excellent place in our rehabilitative environment.  Dr. Gordon Levin, Orthopedic Surgeon, Los Gatos, CA

Sample Medical Center Placements (call for references) 

UCSF Medical School, Department of Physical Therapy, Health & Wellness, San Francisco, specializing in treatment and research for patients with Parkinson's and Neurodegenerative Diseases. http://ptrehab.medschool.ucsf.edu/WellnessCenter/

Omega Sports Rehabilitation, Los Gatos, California  http://www.omegasportsrehab.com/ Elaine Capuchino - Executive Director Trevor Bostorf, M PT - Clinical Director Jennifer Wheeler, M PT - Staff Therapist Melany Sedilla, M PT - PT Assistant Paulette Innamorato - Administrative Director

Brigham Young University, City of Provo 150 East Bulldog Boulevard (1230 North),  (801) 422-4636, research dept.

 CHSW Dominican Hospital Rehabilitation Center Santa Cruz, California  http://www.dominicanhospital.org/Medical_Services/Rehabilitation_And_Therapy_Services/052808

Veterans Administration,  Roseburg, Oregon Terri Klein, Lead Physical Therapist and James Manser, Chief of Prosthetics

Touchstone Rehabilitation and Ride Designs, Phoenix Arizona Daniel Bonaroti, MPT, Owner www.touchstonerehabilitation.com  www.ridedesigns.com

Rogue Valley Medical Center Outpatient Physical Therapy Department, Medford, OR  http://www.rvmc.org/RVMC/Medical-Services/rehabilitation-services/index.aspx

Vasona Creek HealthCare Center, Los Gatos, California  http://vasonacreekhealthcare.com/outpatient.html

StoneBrook Health & Rehabilitation, Los Gatos California  www.StonebrookRehab.com

Willow Glen Convalescent Center,  San Jose, California 

Offices of Dr. Gordon Levin, Orthopedic Surgery, Los Gatos California

Wellness Partners, Sacramento, California, Mitch Fields, Owner  www.wellnesspartners.com 

Access Sport America, Acton, MA, Ross Lilley  Executive Director/Founder, www.acessportamerica.com

City of Eugene Adaptive Recreation Services,  Eugene, Oregon,  Patty Prather, Director  http://www.eugene-or.gov/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=234&PageID=0

Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country, Franconia, New Hampshire, Sandy Olney, Director www.adaptivesportspartners.com 

Bretton Woods Adaptive Sports & Recreation,  Bretton Woods, New Hampshire www.brettonwoodsadaptive.com

1. Walter Reed Army Medical Center

2. Sales Pending at Rehab Institute of Oregon, Portland, Oregon 

3. Sales Pending at San Diego Naval Medical Center

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