Doctors often recommend gait training for people who have difficulty walking, either through illness or injury or as part of an overall physical therapy plan to help them improve their movement and range of motion. Gait training is a type of physical therapy that we offer at LeMoine Physical Therapy. It can help you walk correctly to correct problems you suffered due to an injury or medical condition.
There are several benefits of Rosedale, MD, gait rehabilitation physical therapy, and at our facility, we design a specific plan for your goals, current condition, and medical diagnosis. We combine innovative techniques with proven therapy to develop the right approach to help you improve your mobility, and range of motion and decrease pain when walking. Contact us today to start your treatment
What Are The Benefits Of Rosedale Gait Rehabilitation Physical Therapy?
Many doctors recommend that their patients undergo gait training as part of a holistic treatment to help them be better able to walk on their own. We believe that gait training offers multiple benefits, such as:
- Enhancing muscle memory and retraining the legs
- Strengthening the impacted muscles and joints
- Boosting balance
- Correcting posture
- Developing endurance
- Augmenting mobility
- Lowering the risk of falls
When patients have an option between immobilizing one or both of their legs and undergoing gait rehabilitation, we typically encourage gait training. It gives you better mobility and an opportunity to increase your activity. This, in turn, delivers multiple health benefits and protects you from medical conditions that can develop with a sedentary lifestyle.
Common Techniques For Gait Retraining Therapy
Gait training is a physical therapy approach to helping someone learn to walk again. We may use a combination of machines and bodyweight exercises to help you better support your weight and improve your stability.
Often, the focus is on strength training, though your therapist develops the training plan depending on your current abilities. However, your plan will change as we see improvement and progress. We’ll work with you in therapy sessions and provide “homework” for you to practice at home so you achieve consistent positive results.
We typically start with support, like on parallel bars or a treadmill, so you have plenty of stability while we adjust your gait and stride. We’ll work to develop muscle memory and the motion of your legs that simulated walking so that when you’re better able to bear your weight, you more instinctively know what to do. We may also use git trainers, which include foot plates that move in a pattern reminiscent of human steps.
Body-weight support systems for gait training are another successful technique we deploy to help you improve your ability to walk. These systems use a harness to support your weight as you practice walking so that you can focus on the movement and muscle techniques rather than the stress of placing weight on your legs and vulnerable knees. We can use these either on the floor or on a treadmill, encouraging you each step of the way.
Giving You Hope And Help To Walk Again
At LeMoine Physical Therapy, we meet you where you are and work closely with you to accomplish your goals, like walking again and improving your endurance and capability when walking. When you’re ready to start your Rosedale gait rehabilitation physical therapy, contact us for a personalized therapy program.