Vizziq Neuromuscular Trainer

Parkinson's Disease (PD) can significantly affect walking, causing slower and smaller movements over time. As the disease progresses, individuals may experience shuffling steps, a bent posture, and reduced arm and body movement, giving a stiff appearance. Freezing episodes, where a person becomes "stuck" and unable to take a step, are also common, often triggered by changes in the walking surface, doorways, or turns. Gait training can help individuals with PD improve their mobility and reduce these challenges, enhancing their overall walking ability. #ParkinsonsDisease #GaitTraining #WalkingSupport #Mobility #ParkinsonsCare #MovementTherapy

Walking is a form of living out your independence. Just like blood pressure and heartrate, walking is a vital sign. It not only helps older adults maintain their independence, but is also closely linked to preventing cognitive decline. #aging #mobility #gait #walking https://lnkd.in/g3gzgisf

Falls become more prevalent as we age, especially when walking and encountering destabilizing dursturbances in community-dwelling older adults. "Physical exercise is the most evidence-based approach for preventing falls, with challenging balance exercise among the most successful approaches." Narrowing the base of support or standing on an unsteady surface or not considered perturbations, they are internal perturbations. Effective perturbations include: 1) perturbations that are difficult for the participant to predict 2) participants are destabilized 3) the magnitude is easily adjusted. Learn more about perturbation training to prevent falls below. #falls #prevention #perturbation #training https://lnkd.in/gw4wt83i

Walking is vital after your joint replacement surgery. Whether you've had a total hip or a total knee replacement, you will begin walking and be given weight bearing instructions. Walking is so important for blood flow and function post-surgery. Learn more about the types of devices and gait patterns to use after surgery here. #walking #postop #knee #TKA https://lnkd.in/gqVsfwya

The CDC reports from 2001 - 2006, approximately 47,000 older adults (65+) fell annually and these falls involved both walkers and canes. 87% of these falls involved using a walker. "More studies are needed to identify potential design problems and improve the design of walkers," says the CDC. Regular exercise programs, medication evaluations by a clinician/pharmacist, home assessments, and vision checks can help decrease the risk of falls. #CDC #Falls #OlderAdults #AD #AssistiveDevices https://lnkd.in/gbcBWTmH

"Neuromuscular training focuses on improving movement patterns, muscular recruitment, balance, proprioception, and agility." We experience unexpected movements every day, whether it is an unexpected additional step you have to take or catching yourself after tripping over an unseen obstacle. Perturbation training is crucial to patients who are post-ACL injury. Perturbation training is a series of unanticipatory movements to the patient's balance in order to improve control of muscle activation. Somatosensory receptors gauge changes in sensation or stretch and these are primarily engaged with unexpected movements. For athletes post-ACL injury, their gait may be altered due to issues with muscle activation during gait. Proprioceptive training can improve hamstring response during gait instead of solely relying on the quadriceps to prevent knee buckling. Proprioceptive and balance training has been shown to improve gait symmetry, and quadriceps/hamstring strength ratio, which is important for knee stability and future injury prevention. Read more below. #ACLinjuries #KneeStrengthening #StabilitywithGait #GaitMechanics #Walking https://lnkd.in/gZK9wtaY

The CDC reports from 2001 - 2006, approximately 47,000 older adults (65+) fell annually and these falls involved both walkers and canes. 87% of these falls involved using a walker. "More studies are needed to identify potential design problems and improve the design of walkers," says the CDC. Regular exercise programs, medication evaluations by a clinician/pharmacist, home assessments, and vision checks can help decrease the risk of falls. #CDC #Falls #OlderAdults #AD #AssistiveDevices https://lnkd.in/gGMGHbB6

“A number of studies have found that use of an assistive device (AD) is a predictor of increased falling risk in older adults [4], [5], [6], [7] and it has also been reported that substantial numbers of fall-related injuries and deaths are associated with use of walkers [8].” This study took 10 young adults, 5 female and 5 male with an average age of 23 and were given a medial-lateral perturbation to respond to with a recovery step. The results show that a walker or cane can interfere with this recovery step. Many times during swing phase, the foot would come in contact with the walker and cane after a perturbation, making the use of an AD a risk factor for falls. Learn more below. #falls #assistivedevices #AD #cane #walker #walking https://lnkd.in/gwZq76RJ

The American Heart Association offers a great resource to help increase trunk range of motion. These exercises can be used for anyone wanting to increase their trunk movement or improve their sitting balance. Check out more videos from the AHA to discover other exercises. #TrunkROM #sittingbalance #balance #trunk https://lnkd.in/g7VgjY_T

The human body develops balance strategies from the ankle, knee, and hip, which are vital to fall prevention. Some older adults have difficulty using these balance strategies possibly due to reduced range of motion (ROM) of the hip, knee and ankle, but also as recent research is showing, reduced trunk ROM as well. Yu et. al., says “the contribution of trunk to postural corrections is dominant since it accounts for 50% of the human body mass.” In 10 community-dwelling older adult males, they concluded that the non-fallers had significantly higher trunk ROMs at T12 vs. the faller group. Therefore, trunk ROM can be a significant predictor of fall risk in older adults. #Falls #trunkROM #ROM #FallPrevention #OlderAdults #balance https://lnkd.in/gBmwxQzC