Welcome to The Clinical Minute! In this episode, Senior Clinical Education Specialist Liz Hillen, M.Ed., CPO, LPO, introduces the Sport Elite Combo REHABILITATOR® by OCSI Guardian Brace.
Guardian Sport Rehabilitator
SPORT REHABILITATOR
Rehabilitator Technology is engineered and clinically proven to provide neuromuscular strengthening to accelerate and enhance the rehabilitation process. Guardian Brace incorporates Wearable Rehabilitative Technology in all its products to meet Orthopedic and Physical Therapy goals. Rehabilitators are the perfect ancillary product to integrate into your current treatment protocols to achieve improved patient outcomes.
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Features and Benefits:
- 11in length; weights 1lb
- Heat Moldable
- Clinically proven
- Medial/lateral pneumatic condyle
- Medial/lateral unload with same brace
- Patented Swing Assist Technology
- Provide therapeutic compression with increased proprioception
- Leg strengthening through gait correction
- Mild – Severe Knee Osteoarthritis
COMBO THERAPY (SPORT AND ELITE AFO REHABILITATOR)
Gait is dynamic. The dynamic Elite AFO and corrective gait dynamic SWING ASSIST Sport Rehabilitator brace used in combination facilitates accelerated gait rehabilitation by incrementally improving gait biomechanics as the patient simply walks in the brace. Routine use corrects learned Hemiplegic Gait muscle memory to significantly improve gait, even when unbraced. Patients must be ambulatory with or without an assistive device to benefit from this Hemiplegic Gait Orthotic Therapy.
Features and Benefits:
- Two independent devices for flexibility in device use, depending on patient activity
- A two-piece prefabricated custom fitted KAFO
- Pneumatic condyles for increased sensory motor excitation and proprioception
- Significantly improved patient mobility and independence
- ROM hinges to control knee hyperextension and/or bucking
- Dynamic Extension Assist 2.5lbs – 7lbs