Stroke Rehabilitation: How to Practice Walking After Stroke

Standing and walking with two legs is of epoch-making significance in human evolutionary history. This change gave humans a higher and wider horizon, enabling humans to see farther environmental and natural conditions.

Human beings could flexibly move their freed upper limbs, which improved their defense capability and protected their own safety. In the meanwhile, they were able to use their hands to grab food, enhancing efficiency and vitality. It can be seen that the ability to stand and walk plays an extremely important role for us humans!

Studies have shown that approximately 75% of patients experience loss of walking ability in the early post-stroke period. The sudden loss of such an important ability is devastating to the patient in many aspects, such as physiology, psychology and social participation.

Theory of early stroke rehabilitation has proven that long-term bed rest will affect patients’ functional recovery potential (especially the recovery of neuromuscular and equilibrium function) , reducing brain plasticity and functional reorganization. Guidelines for Early Rehabilitation after Stroke proposes that in order to restore basic walking ability as early as possible, hemiplegic stroke patients should actively engage in anti-gravity muscle training, affected lower limb weight support training, affected lower limb stepping training and weight shift training in standing position in the early stages. (Level II recommendation, Level B evidence)

Yeecon Intelligent Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot A1 uses new rehabilitation concept to overcome the shortcomings of traditional rehabilitation training. It changes patient’s position under the suspension state with binding. With support from the bind, the tilt table helps patients to do stepping training. By simulating normal physiological gait, this equipment helps to restore patients’ walking ability and suppress abnormal gait. 

Details of Intelligent Lower Limbs Rehabilitation Robot A1

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Introduction of the Robotic Tilt Table A1

Our robotic tilt table uses new rehabilitation concept to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional rehabilitation training. It changes the patient’s position under the suspension state with binding. With support from the bind, the tilt table helps patients to do stepping training. By simulating normal physiological gait, this equipment helps to restore patients’ walking ability and suppress abnormal gait.

The rehab machine is suitable for the rehabilitation of patients suffer from disorders of the nervous system related to a stroke or traumatic brain injury or incomplete spinal cord injuries.  Using the rehab robot is really an effective solution especially to those in the early stages of rehabilitation.

Features

The distance between the feet the angle of the toe flexion and extension are completely adjustable. The two-sided pedal can be used for active or assisted walking training according to patients’ need.

The 0-80 degree progressive standing robotic tilt table with the special suspension bind can effectively protect legs. The spasm monitoring system can ensure training safety and the best training results.

1. enable patients who do not have the standing ability to walk in the lying position;

2. standing in bed at different angles;

3. standing and walking under the suspension state to restrain spasm;

4. gait training at early stages could help with rehabilitation a lot;

5. anti-gravity suspension bind makes it easy for patients to make steps by reducing body weight;

6. reduce the labor intensity of the therapist;

7. combine standing, stepping and suspension;

Treatment Effects

1. gait training at the early stage of rehabilitation can shorten the recovery time of patients to walk again;

2. strengthen the afferent sensory stimulation of the legs to improve the excitability, flexibility and coordination of the nervous system;

3. improve and maintain the leg joints mobility, enhance muscle strength and endurance;

4. relief muscle spasm of legs by exercise and training;

5. improve the patient’s body function, prevent orthostatic hypotension, pressure ulcers and other complications;

6. enhance the patient’s metabolic level and cardiopulmonary function;