About Second Step

We want to make walking again, for those who need it, a reality

 

If a patient wants to walk again, then why not try?

 

The most commonly reported goal patients in rehabilitative recovery programs report is to be able to walk again. The Gait Harness System® provides a safe environment for individuals to perform a higher level of functional and movement skills that they could not perform safely, or at all, through other means.  

 

The System is a necessary tool to facilitate an aggressive, but controlled, approach to stimulating the neuromuscular, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal systems. It also provides a chance for individuals with a variety of neurological and musculoskeletal injuries to restore a sense of independence and normalcy to their lives.  The System has been especially useful for hemiplegic participants who have very poor balance and are therefore at high risk for falls. It puts patients and their families back into a real world environment. If the patient gets tired, they can just lean back in the gait harness and take a standing rest break, then go again.  User comments include they feel comfortable with the Gait Harness System®, because they are better able to focus on walking, rather than simply not falling.

 

Believing that recovery is a better approach than adaptation, therapists can set ambitious goals for patients

 

Traditionally, treatment has focused on adaptation, or learning to live with the resulting impairments, but many clinicians are now looking at the opportunity for recovery. Neuroplasticity is the term that describes the brain's ability to reorganize by forming new neural connections necessary for recovery. Therapists may try different things until they find the method or techniques that will work.  People are starting to realize there is more potential for recovery of the brain.

 

The right exercise, for the right duration, at the right time, can promote neurotrophic growth factors. Products and treatment techniques can be implemented with this in mind. This should be done not only with specific rehabilitation intent, but also with a hologic focus.

 

Success stories on this website show clients and therapists successfully using the Gait Harness System

 

Recovery of function is becoming more common because the Gait Harness System® works.  Many patients using the Gait Harness System®, who have suffered TBI’s and SCI’s and are 5, 10, and 15 years post injury, are now beginning to walk and stand again for the first time.

 

Understanding the Gait Harness System®  and its applications to the life and health of any patient is due in part to the implicit design of the System, and then to the application of physical therapy principles and the fundamentals of physiology, biomechanics and neurology. The Gait Harness System® provides therapist and patient with the tool they need to accomplish a necessary step in the recovery process. No other system provides the same combination of therapeutic advantages, safety and ease of use. The System also allows for a creative, responsive and innovative approach that considers the many physiologic, biomechanical, and biochemical factors, as well as the individual’s opinions, emotional and spiritual needs.

 

The Gait Harness System® as a whole allows for a therapist to efficiently address the needs of patient from the acute to the chronic setting. Therapists have seen an undeniable need for the Gait Harness System, and a recovery focused ideology to be implemented throughout a patient’s continuum of care.

 

The Gait Harness System represents an affordable solution towards recovery, which makes perfect sense

 

The safety of the Gait Harness System® benefits users, family, facility, caregiver and insurance program alike.  Many of those using the Gait Harness System® also realize that greater savings can be realized from longer, recovery-focused care following the initial injury, rather than repeat care, which targets adaptations and accidents later in life.

Second Step is "Helping People Walk Again" by keeping patients and caregivers safe, simultaneously facilitating functional therapy outcomes.

It's about WALKING AGAIN

No problem is too big…if the right people, with the right treatment, and the right System, go at it the right way