Lokomat: Shepherd Center, Atlanta, USA
“Our goal is to get 30 minutes of stepping each session, for each patient. The Lokomat assures that we can get that, no matter what our staff availability is on a particular day.”
Candy Tefertiller, MPT at Shepherd Center
Shepherd Center, located in the Buckhead community of Atlanta, Georgia, is a private, not-for-profit hospital devoted to the medical care and rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury and disease, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis and other neuromuscular problems.
Find out more about:
- How Lokomat encourages more appropriate manual locomotor therapy.
- Why abnormal tone and stiffness are no obstacle to the Lokomat therapy.
- How it can be potentially useful for evaluating spastic, stiff patients.
