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.
Read more here in the 2nd study.
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.
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.”
“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
Clinical Evidence and Case Studies
Patient and clinician testimonials show how SafeGait Therapy enhances the experience of care. Read more here.
Effectiveness of SafeGait 360°
Training Proven
Find below the studies that have been published
in relation to the therapy with SafeGait 360°
- 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)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- Effects of a Single Session Reactive Step Training Intervention in the Geriatric Population: A Feasibility and Safety Study
” Reactive step training is a safe, practical intervention that patients can tolerate and therapists can reasonably implement to decrease the risk of falls.”
(Mowder-Tinney JJ. et al.)
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
What Experts Say
Document number: SGWB20007 Rev A
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