Advancing Fitness with Specialized Equipment

Adaptive Exercise Equipment

The adaptive exercise equipment listed here can be utilized independently, during open gym hours. In addition to the equipment found in many traditional gyms, such as treadmills and free weights, the Stephen A. Orthwein Center offers accessible gym equipment that isn’t found in commercial gyms.

Our gym has extensive equipment for adaptive training, available including:

  • LiteGait®

  • ParaMill (wheelchair treadmill)

  • Standing frames

  • VitaGlide®

  • Mobility Skills Course with ramps, curbs and stairs for training with assistive devices

  • NuStep® recumbent cross trainers

  • MOTOmeds®

  • Krankcycles®

  • SCIFIT® steppers, elliptical, and bikes

  • Solo-Step® overhead track and harness system

  • Wheely X (wheelchair treadmill)

  • Equalizer strength equipment

  • Lifetime cable equipment

  • Smith machine

  • Paralympic powerlifting bench

  • GaitKeeper treadmill

  • Xcite

  • Parallel bars

  • SaeboMAS

Specialty Exercise Equipment

The equipment listed here can only be utilized during 1:1 Exercise Training sessions with an Adaptive Exercise Specialist, with the exception of the Solo-Step®.

Alter G

  • The AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill is adaptive exercise equipment with patented, NASA Differential Air Pressure (DAP) technology — a precise air calibration system based on the user’s actual body weight, to change what’s possible in rehab and training. Using a pressurized air chamber to uniformly reduce gravitational load and body weight in precise 1% increments, AlterG enables patients and athletes to move unrestricted and pain-free — restoring and building muscle strength, range of motion, balance, function and fitness. Unique technology for adaptive training allows for normal gait and balance, unlike hydrotherapy or harnesses for superior weight-supported walking, running and closed kinetic-chain exercise.

  • An AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill™ system will help you experience a level of freedom you may not have thought possible. Whether you want to get back to life as quickly as possible after orthopedic injury or surgery, or you want to gain strength and endurance while managing a neurological condition, chronic disease or obesity, adaptive exercise equipment may be the answer. As one of our pieces of accessible gym equipment, the AlterG can give you new power to achieve your goals.

  • The AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill features patented, NASA Differential Air Pressure (DAP) technology, a precise air calibration system, based on the user’s actual body weight, to change what’s possible in rehab and adaptive training. Using a pressurized air chamber to uniformly reduce gravitational load and body weight in precise 1% increments, AlterG enables patients and athletes to move unrestricted and pain-free – restoring and building muscle strength, range of motion, balance, function and fitness. No other unweighting technology offers as much precision, accuracy and comfort.

Armeo®Power

  • Armeo®Power by Hocoma is a robotic exoskeleton that has been specifically designed for arm and hand therapy, enabling even clients with severe motor impairments to perform exercises with a high number of repetitions. As adaptive exercise equipment, the Armeo®Power uses Performance Feedback exercises designed to train the strength and range of motion needed for activities of daily living.

  • Conventional arm and hand therapy can limit the number of repetitions and severity can prevent practice. The Armeo®Power can assist individuals with little movement in adaptive training to improve the range of motion and fine motor skills of individuals with neurological injuries.

  • The Armeo®Power carries the weight of the client’s arm and hand and allows training in an extensive workspace. The robotic arm assistance can be adapted to the individual needs and changing abilities of each client. This accessible gym equipment provides clients with varying levels of support, from full assistance to no assistance.

C-Mill

  • The C-Mill by Hocoma is motivational treadmill training that uses augmented and virtual reality to simulate everyday life and maximize results. This piece of adaptive exercise equipment offers body-weight support, force plates and extensive data reporting.

  • Training on the C-Mill benefits people who would like to improve their standing balance and walking through adaptive training — including people with lower extremity amputations, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, cerebral palsy and brain injury.

  • The C-Mill helps people train to successfully navigate everyday circumstances, like walking in a crowd or avoiding obstacles. A wide range of exercise games incorporate external focus, varied environments and performance feedback to keep you engaged and challenged.

Galileo

  • Galileo is an efficient universal exercise-training tool for improving muscle fitness, enhancing performance in athletes and for use in space research. This adaptive exercise equipment uses a sea-saw side-alternating movement pattern to simulate the natural human gait causing a tilting movement of the pelvis, just like when walking but at a more rapid pace.

    Unlike other muscle stimulation devices, Galileo Training recruits the afferent and efferent system putting small and large antagonistic muscle groups through thousands of muscle contractions — all in a matter of minutes. Not only is Galileo easy to use, but also it allows efficient, low-impact and adaptive training that improves users’ balance, coordination, muscle function, muscle power, muscle force and neural communication.

  • Not only does Galileo Training accelerate early rehabilitation for children to seniors with neurological conditions, but it also optimizes “motor relearning” under the principle of high repetition to increase neuroplasticity and decrease the complications of long-term immobility. As adaptive exercise equipment for rehabilitation, Galileo Training is a highly effective tool to modify spasticity prior to functional muscle training and mobility.

  • Galileo’s side-alternating motion is similar to a seesaw movement with variable amplitude and frequency. As an accessible gym equipment piece, Galileo stimulates a movement pattern similar to human gait. The rapid movement of the training platform causes a tilting movement of the pelvis, just like when walking, but much more frequently.

EksoNR™ (exoskeleton)

  • EksoNR™, manufactured by Ekso Bionics®, is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that helps clients with stroke, acquired brain injury and spinal cord injury stand and relearn to walk with a trained therapist. This exoskeleton is valuable adaptive exercise equipment, helping clients get back on their feet sooner to re-learn correct step patterns, weight shifting and posture.

  • EksoNR™’s smart software allows clinicians to adjust settings based on a client’s weaknesses and tailor each individual session. The goal with EksoNR™ is to progress clients through adaptive training so they can regain as much function as possible in order to “walk out” of the device.

  • The Armeo®Power carries the weight of the client’s arm and hand and allows training in an extensive workspace. The robotic arm assistance can be adapted to the individual needs and changing abilities of each client. This piece of accessible gym equipment provides clients with varying levels of support, from full assistance to no assistance.

Erigo® Pro

  • Erigo® by Hocoma combines cyclical, robotically generated leg movement with functional electrical stimulation (FES) in a supported upright position to facilitate central nervous system stimulation, weight-bearing and cardiovascular stability.

  • As one of our adaptive exercise equipment offerings, the Erigo® enables supported standing and stepping, facilitated strengthening and sensorimotor stimulation. This adaptive training may prove beneficial for people who have a spinal cord injury, stroke injury or brain injury.

  • The Erigo gradually raises the person to an upright position on a tilt table while robotic foot plates generate stepping. Optionally, functional electrical stimulation (FES) can also be applied to the person’s legs. This helps maximize muscular strength and neurological stimulation. Once upright, the person can also work on upper extremity strengthening or stretching.

Lokomat®

  • The Lokomat® by Hocoma is the best investigated device in robot-assisted gait rehabilitation today. Robot-assisted therapy enables effective, intensive and adaptive training to increase the strength of muscles and the range of motion of joints in order to improve walking.

  • The Lokomat® is a piece of adaptive exercise equipment intended to assist with gait training of people with gait deficits as well as secondary benefits of upright mobility for individuals without lower extremity movement. The Lokomat® has been known to benefit those with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Screening is needed prior to getting into the device.

  • This piece of accessible gym equipment can be sized to the individual to promote the mechanics of walking. The physiological movement of the lower extremities is ensured by the individually adjustable client interface. Additionally, virtual reality games can increase performance and challenge the individual during the adaptive training process.

RT300 Leg|Arm|Core Cycle

  • Use a state-of-the-art functional electrical stimulation (FES) cycle, the RT300 Leg|Arm|Core, to increase strength, decrease spasticity, improve circulation and improve range of motion.

  • Adaptive exercise equipment with FES benefits people with a wide range of neurological impairments including spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, brain injury and more.

  • Electrical impulses are delivered through electrodes to stimulate nerves, which evoke a muscle contraction. Electrodes are placed on target muscle groups in the legs, abdominals, trunk, shoulders and/or arms to allow active cycling with either arms or legs. All settings are customized, and appropriate levels of resistance and stimulation are applied to optimize each session’s results.

Xcite

  • Addresses neurological impairments or muscle weakness through functional electrical stimulation (FES) evoked movements such as reaching, standing up and transferring.

  • Adaptive training with FES benefits people with a wide range of neurological impairments including spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, brain injury and more.

  • Electrical impulses are delivered through electrodes to stimulate nerves, which then evoke a muscle contraction. As adaptive exercise equipment, the Xcite has a library of stimulation patterns that activate the right muscles at the right time to achieve a functional movement or to complete an exercise.

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