Partial Weight Bearing is measurable: Intelligent Crutches to support an optimal healing process

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 3, 2010 -- PIERENSTEP supports an optimal healing process

Injuries of the lower extremity must often be healed by partial weight bearing in orthopaedics and after emergency surgery. However the rehabilitation will be, the therapists will decide in the individual case.

Yet, for the healing of bones and a sufficient bone growing a certain stimulus as with partial weight bearing is of great help. In addition to this, an early functional mobilization of the patient is of great necessity during therapy treatment. Many modern surgery methods indicate partial weight bearing, such as with fractures, cartilage cell transplantation, cruciate ligament replacement or meniscus suture.

Until now, this partial weight bearing had to be adjusted and taught with therapeutic help and through physiotherapy; and its practical realization thus had to be “guessed” by the patient.

With the intelligent forearm crutch PIERENSTEP the therapist and the patient for the first time have an innovative instrument at hand, which measures the partial weight bearing and gives automatic feedback to the patient in case of an incorrect step right from the very first step. The intelligent forearm crutch PIERENSTEP consists of two components: A computer run pair of forearm crutches, software and a data transmission radio module. Acoustic and vibration signals inform the patient of every incorrect step performed. In addition to this, the PIERENSTEP system enables a great learning and is a teaching instrument for gait training.

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