Balance & Mobility Trainer

SafeGait 360^° Balance and Mobility Trainer™ is an overhead dynamic body-weight support and fall protection system that promotes patient confidence and faster recovery, enables safer patient handling and increases profitability across the continuum of care.

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Advantages of Therapy with SafeGait 360°

Promoting Patient Confidence

Reducing the fear of falling can improve a patient’s confidence and encourage a more challenging, treatment plan.

Patients who feel safe and protected from falls are more likely to push themselves to participate in increasingly difficult exercises.

Increase Intensity and Challenge

Increasing intensity and challenge in rehabilitation is clinically proven to lead to faster patient recovery.

Without the need to guard, therapists can expand task choices resulting in a diverse intervention strategy that would otherwise be too risky.

Reduce Risk and Safer Patient Handling

Through the combination of fall arrest and body weight support, SafeGait 360° mitigates the risk of fall-related injury to the patient and therapist.

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Increased Profitability Across the Continuum of Care

SafeGait 360° enables a 1:1 clinician:patient relationship, improving overall workflow efficiencies across settings.

With SafeGait 360° a single therapist can safely manage a patient session that would otherwise require an additional set of “hands.”

Clinical Evidence and Case Studies

Patient and clinician testimonials show how SafeGait Therapy enhances the experience of care. Read more here.

What Experts Say

SafeGait 360° Installed at MossRehab
When they are using SafeGait, our therapists can start (therapy) earlier and focus on guiding their movements rather than holding the patient up. So with this device we can offer patients substantially earlier, safer therapy and a greater sense of security, with the use of fewer resources.

Alberto Esquenazi, MD

Chief Medical Officer, MossRehab

SafeGait 360° Improving Lives at Ohio State University (OSU)
The features that attracted us to SafeGait were its versatility, the software interface and the methods of quantifying elements of treatment. The patients are going to benefit by being able to move without fear of falling. Therapists are going to be able to deliver truly innovative treatments and researchers will be able to measure treatment intensity and outcomes.

D. Michele Basso, Ed.D., PT

Professor And Associate Director Of The OSU School Of Health And Rehabilitation Sciences

Moving Freely & Confidently at Thompson Health
The SafeGait 360° Balance and Mobility Trainer™ will allow us to expand our care to patients with severe orthopedic and neurological impairments. With its Dynamic Fall Protection, therapists can challenge their patients, improving their abilities and overcoming balance concerns in a safer and more effective way.

Carole Drake, MSPT, WCC

Director Rehabilitation Services, Thompson Health

One of the biggest benefits that SafeGait has is that our therapists can be 1:1 with a patient. We no longer have to be 3:1 trying to help patients ambulate. Not only is it safer for the patient because they are in the system but it’s also safer and more productive for our staff. Through this technology, we have also been able to increase our patient volume by 10%.

Kurt Koczent, Vice President and COO

UR Medicine Thompson Health

SafeGait for patients with incomplete spinal injuries
I have personally worked with patients with incomplete spinal cord injuries who were otherwise unable to walk outside the parallel bars due to their extreme fall risk. The SafeGait provides us with the ability to not only help them walk, but to walk frequently and for substaintal distances. This allows patients to make wonderful gains in functional strength, endurance, balance and mobility skills.

Timothy O'Conner, DPT

Acute Rehabilitation Unit, University of Rochester Medical Center

Success Stories

Effectiveness of SafeGait 360° Training Proven

Find below the studies that have been published in relation to the therapy with SafeGait 360°

1. Thompson Health Study

“The technology on the front end was more than we were used to spending, but when you look at the ROI calculator, it easily pays for itself and enables you to serve the community in a better way.”
(Kurt Koczent RN, Chief Operating Officer at Thompson Health)

2. The Effects of Large Amplitude Movement Training in an Unweighted Harness System on Functional Outcome Measures

“Using an unweighted harness system in conjunction with large amplitude movements may help to reduce fear of falling in individuals with Parkinson’s Disease to allow for the utilization of more challenging activities. ”
(Mowder-Tinney et al.)

3. Nazareth Study Cerebellar Deficit (Outpatient)

” The purpose of this case report was to utilize a motivational task, emphasizing somatosensory awareness and challenging reactive balance training, to improve functional outcomes.”
(Hoover et al.)

4. Effects of a Single Session Reactive Step Training Intervention in the Geriatric Population

” Recent studies indicate a single session of repeated slip training, involving 24 slips or trips, cuts annual fall risk for older adults by 50%.”
(Mowder-Tinney JJ. et al.)

5. Effects of a Single Session Reactive Step Training Intervention in the Geriatric Population: A Feasibility and Safety Study

“The technology on the front end was more than we were used to spending, but when you look at the ROI calculator, it easily pays for itself and enables you to serve the community in a better way.”

(Kurt Koczent RN, Chief Operating Officer at Thompson Health)

Increased Profitability By Setting

Inpatient Rehab

Support early mobilization and more challenging interventions
More efficient rehab sessions, 1:1 clinician:patient relationships
Reduced length of stay due to faster patient recovery

Outpatient Rehab

See more patients with the same amount of staff
Attract more patients through the use of innovative technology
Reduce the number of self-discharges

Skilled Nursing Facility

Demonstrate more effective therapy in smaller increments of time
Negotiate higher reimbursement rates
Attract more patients through the use of innovative technology