Testing and Exercise For:
	Shoulder Elbow Wrist	Hip Knee Ankle
	Post Surgical Rehabilitation

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Biodex is the fastest way to identify, treat and document the physical impairments that cause functional limitations of orthopedic patients. Biodex provides patients a fast, effective, documented return to function using multiple types of exercise and muscle function. That’s how your patients get better…FAST.

Isokinetic Resistance mode:

• The Isokinetic Resistance mode for testing and rehabilitation is totally accommodating throughout the entire range of motion. Biodex’s unique impact-free acceleration and deceleration eliminates joint trauma, allowing patients to exercise and be tested at more functional speeds. Resistance continuously matches effort, accommodating to variations in patient force output due to weakness, pain or fatigue at specific points in the individual’s range of motion.
• Isokinetic resistance is a safe, objective means to quantify physical impairments with a high correlation to function. Isokinetic testing is the standard for muscle and joint assessment.

Reactive Eccentric mode:

• Reactive Eccentric mode is for sub-maximal neuromuscular re-education in the early phases of rehabilitation.
• Biodex can be set to respond only to the patient’s force output. In order for the patient to initiate movement, the patient must produce and maintain a pre-determined minimum amount of force. This stabilizes and protects the joint.
• Eccentric muscle training is also used for professional athletes and sports training.

Passive Motion mode:

• Passive Motion mode enables early intervention in all patients throughout all phases of rehabilitation.
• Passive Motion allows patients to work safely at definitively prescribed sub- maximal force levels while combining isometric, concentric and eccentric contractions to:
  - decrease joint effusion
  - increase range of motion
  - develop early strength gains and prevent muscle atrophy
• Passive Motion is the best way to see early gains after total joint replacement surgeries, sports traumas with joint swelling, and injuries suffered by normal “weekend” warriors.

Isometric and Isotonic modes:

• Isometric contractions are effective at developing strength while avoiding painful points in the range of motion.
• Isotonic mode allows velocity to vary while providing inertia-free constant force during concentric or eccentric muscular contractions

Light has been used for healing for many centuries, starting with the Greeks and Romans who recognized the positive effects of sunlight. We know that when sunlight strikes the skin, our whole body feels the benefits. After many years of study, it is known that the application of specific spectrums of light at low energy levels has positive effects on human tissue. These physiological effects on human tissue include the following:

• Biostimulation: increased cell metabolism
• Improved blood circulation and vasodilatation
• Analgesic effect
• Anti-inflammatory and anti-edematous effects
• Stimulation of wound healing

Physical therapy use of light therapy achieves the following:

• Relieves acute and chronic pain
• Increases the speed, quality and tensile strength during tissue repair
  Increases blood supply
• Stimulates the immune system
• Promotes the development of collagen and muscle tissue
• Promotes increased wound healing and clot formation
• Reduces inflammation