Sports Injury Rehabilitation

 

 

Reduce time required for Sports Injury Rehabilitation and maintain conditioning regimen.

Imagine what it feels like to run at a fraction of your own body weight! GlideTrak™ makes cutting edge, unweighting technology used by professional sports teams, elite training centers and top physical therapy clinics easily affordable and accessible to your injured athletes now!

Remove Harmful Impact

• Protects injuries and surgical repairs throughout rehabilitation
• Promotes pain free exercise

Speed Up Recovery from Sports Injuries

• Allows “Active Recovery” with safe, increased exercise volume vs. disuse
• Athletes can train through injuries

Maintain Top Fitness Levels During Recovery

• Begin conditioning even before safely able on a stationary bike or in a pool

Gain the Advantage of Earlier Treatment

• Begin safe, pain free gait training and running sooner with GlideTrak™ Unweighting
• Begin exercising before incisions have healed for the pool

Meet Doctor’s Orders for Weight Bearing

• Easily meets orders for Touch-Down, Partial or Weight Bearing as Tolerated
• Also allows well-leg training, while protecting injured leg

Pain Free Weight Bearing Progression

• Simple strap or treadmill incline/decline features allow precise unweighting to comfort
• Patients are able to progress from minimal to moderate weight bearing status as tolerated

Restore Running Ability Sooner

• Allows early restoration of running form by minimizing the stress of impact to sensitive or weakened tissues
• Simulates running more closely than bicycling or other exercise machines

Natural Movement

• More natural transition to running motion than from a pool, bicycle or elliptical machine
• Allows gravity to challenge the body without buoyancy or slowing from water resistance
• GlideTrak™ does not change the external environment or eliminate forces of gravity: It simply reduces impact

Earlier Speed and Power Training

• Allows earlier return to speed and power training with less soreness and stress to recovering tissues.

Cross Training and Active Recovery

• Provides optimal cross training and active recovery days.
• Train harder, faster, longer and more often without the risks of excessive joint impact

Get More Conditioning and Performance Out of Larger Athletes

• Especially football linemen
• Effective for off-season weight loss or building a preseason endurance base
• More comfortable on joints and enhances running experience

Progression to Outdoor Exercise

• Athletes may progress from indoor GlideTrak™ training to outdoor exercise on the GlideCycle™
• Injured athletes may condition outdoor with teammates and feel included in practices

• Post-operative hip, knee, leg or ankle rehabilitation
• Anterior knee pain syndromes, Chondromalacia, Patellar Tracking problems
• Tendinopathies, Bursitis
• Ligament or joint injuries
• Muscle strains and contusions
• Turf Toe, Heel Pain, Metatarsalgia, Plantar Fasciitis
• Various back or hip conditions

• Over Speed Training
• Stride lengthening and enhancement
• Power training with brake-resisted explosive starts and hill training
• Recovery training days
• High knee running
• Reciprocal bounding (long jump approaches)
• Double leg bounding
• Single leg training