Physical Therapy: LiteGait Therapy
The original Partial-Weight-Bearing Gait Therapy Device. LiteGait is a gait training device that simultaneously controls weight bearing, posture and balance over a treadmill or over ground.
The LiteGait creates an ideal environment for treating patients with a wide range of impairments and functional levels. LiteGait provides proper posture, reduces weight bearing, eliminates concerns for balance and facilitates the training of coordinated lower extremity movement. Its unique harness design not only permits unilateral or bilateral support allowing progression of the weight bearing load from non to full weight bearing, but it also allows the clinician to manually assist the legs and pelvis to achieve proper gait patterns.
The benefits of the LiteGait for the patients:
- Obtain supported suspension.
- Comfortably walk in an environment free from falls.
- Increase or decrease the weight bearing load on the weaker side of the body.
- Learn to walk with proper upright posture.
- Achieve controlled reduction of weight bearing.
- Use an assistive device while being supported over ground.
- Begin gait training earlier in the rehabilitation process and at a lower level.
- Experience a sense of accomplishment
The unique design of the LiteGait system allows the therapist to lift and train patients without the help of additional staff. It allows the therapist to move a patient up to 350 lbs from seated position to proper upright posture for balance, gait per pre-gait activities. The patient is kept in a comfortable fall free environment enabling both the patient and the therapist to concentrate on the therapy session much earlier in the rehabilitation process. The LiteGait can be used in sitting, kneeling, quadruped or standing and over ground or in conjunction with a treadmill.
The benefits of the LiteGait for the therapists
- Control weight bearing and posture to correct asymmetric movement.
- Prevent excessive forward lean.
- Train symmetric gait patterns for patients with one sided body weakness.
- Facilitate proper gait patterns.
- Work on symmetry and weight shifting.
- Train coordination without balance concerns.
- Manually assist limb placement.
- Facilitate proper hip alignment.
- Provide efficient treatment.
- Work on sit to stand, balance and posture.
- Safely lift patients to standing from chair or mat
