Testimonials

Uses Biodex Balance System Training Therapy for flagship Vertigo Balance Treatment

A proven leader in physical therapy since 1983, Physical Therapy and Sports Rehab, Inc. is using the Biodex Balance System SD as their key component for evaluating and prescribing therapy for vertigo, imbalance, gait disorders, and vestibular loss. 

Highly trained OT's and PT's use the Biodex Balance System SD to measure.

A Rensselaer County Physical Therapist is using the Biodex Balance System SD to help folks keep their balance. 

Physical Therapist Roosevelt Moore talks about how the Biodex Balance System allows patients to see their own progress.

Fall Risk Screening of seniors with the Biodex Balance System SD at a local health fair receives high marks.

Biodex Balance and Mobility Systems have proven valuable tools in generating referrals from local hospital. 

Plaza Health Network aims to deliver the best possible rehab services – as a leader, not a follower. Biodex equipment has helped us remove patient fear and change people's lives... 

“I have used the Biodex Balance System for two years with a wide variety of patients ranging from geriatrics to professional athletes. It is a great resource to have in the clinic when dealing with hip, knee, and ankle dysfunction patients, and is especially beneficial with the athletic population.

As a rule, athletes are very competitive and hate to be shown their functional deficits. The Biodex Balance System shows their proprioceptive weakness and challenges them to improve. The Balance System test mode provides a standard baseline to evaluate the athlete in a static or dynamic nature. The computer generates a print-out of the standard deviations of correctional mistakes and the percentage of time the athlete stays in a particular quadrant. It then compares this to normative balance data that Biodex has provided. This allows the objective measures of the athlete to be trained, and then easily reevaluated and assessed to quantify proprioceptive improvement.

The Biodex Balance System is the only piece of equipment in our clinic that can objectively measure and compare to normative data the proprioceptive deficits of a patient. It also works well as a simple training tool, providing a challenging and competitive way to motivate athletes.

In my opinion, the Biodex Balance System is a very cost-effective choice of capital equipment for most physical therapy or athletic training facilities. I would highly recommend this product to any orthopedic clinic, athletic training room, rehab clinic or balance clinic because of the true objective measurements and normative data the system offers to both patient and clinician.”

“I've had good success with my Biodex Balance System. I've been using it with patients that have Parkinson's Disease and balance has improved in 60% of the cases.

I put patients on the Balance System prior to using any other intervention (including therapeutic exercises, transfer training and gait training.) The patients perform both LOS and dynamic training during each session. Sessions are scheduled for the same time each visit to account for medication schedules.

This protocol has been working very well. For example, one 74-year old patient has improved from BSI of 15.9 to 3.7 in four weeks (11 treatments). Another patient, age 78, has improved from 4.9 to 3.2 in four weeks (10 treatments).

The objective results provided by the Balance System encourages patients by providing feedback they can easily understand. Even more important, these patients are noticing significant improvement in functional balance at home. I would certainly recommend this system to other clinics whose clientele suffer from Parkinson's Disease.”

“Do we like our Biodex Balance System? You bet. It's great! We put a wide variety of patients on our three systems each day. Every knee surgery, all our ACL reconstructions, post-op arthroscopics, total joint, total hip, total knee replacements, plus every ankle problem. The Biodex Balance System is a wonderful tool for working with any of these pathologies.

Our systems see constant use. We average about 75 patients per day on these units and so far our units have a perfect durability record. That's important because we really depend on them to be one of the cornerstones of rehab at our clinic. We believe that balance training - proprioceptive training - is a very important part of the rehab process. In the long run, it may prove as important as strength training. Some of our more active sports doctors are already using Biodex Balance Reports to help make return to play decisions. This is especially so with ankle inversion/eversion injuries.

When you first see this machine you'll probably think to yourself that it looks like a glorified wobble board. That's because at first glance, it seems too simple. but once you've tried it out, you'll think: 'Wow, this is really high tech - and it's easy to use!

The Biodex Balance System is extremely versatile and very applicable to a clinical setting. If you are doing lower extremity rehab, you need one in your clinic!”

“Our Biodex Balance System has been extensively utilized over the past five years. Practically every patient that we see with a lower extremity problem does some amount of postural stability training on the device.

We primarily use our Biodex Balance System for improvement of neuromuscular control in patients who have an acute lateral ankle sprain, chronic ankle instability, patellofemoral dysfunction, knee instability, or an ACL reconstruction.

It's great to have a device that provides us with a way to train and objectively evaluate closed-chain function that requires simultaneous activation of muscles at the ankle, knee and hip.

We would not want to give up our Biodex Balance System. It is easy to use, extremely durable, and provides a challenging task that we consider essential for restoration of optimal lower extremity function. I would certainly recommend it to other clinicians.”

“The majority of our patients are over the age of 70 and most have balance issues, so the Biodex Balance System SD gets a lot of use here. We like it for balance assistance and training, and find it works especially well with hip and knee replacement patients as well as those with back problems.

The display and printouts help us prove to patients that they aren't putting equal weight on one leg vs. the other and that they do, indeed, have balance problems. After an initial balance assessment, we use the system to train each patient to balance properly, which helps avoid additional back and lower extremity problems down the road - as well as decreasing their risk of falling.

Our patients love the system because they can see their progress and receive objective scores, which lets them know they are getting better or what they need to do to improve upon the last visit.

I would highly recommend the Balance System SD to other facilities - especially those working with elderly populations.”

“The Biodex Balance System sees a lot of use in our clinic. Like most facilities, we use the Balance System with just about all of our lower extremity patients to enhance proprioception. We put almost everyone on it; ankle, knee, hip, even low back patients. In the course of a day we use the system with between 70 and 80 patients.

Each time we complete a test, we print the report with an overall deficiency rating and place it in the patient's chart. After ten weeks, we add a summary report. This way, when the patient returns to see the physician, they have a record of every test with every aspect listed: KT results, Biodex isokinetic tests, Biodex proprioceptive test.”

“When we first began looking at computerized balance trainers, we knew we wanted something versatile and user-friendly because technology that is not practical and accessible often sits idle and unused. All it took was one on-site demonstration and we were hooked on the Biodex Balance System SD. In addition to offering a variety of assessment tools, it has multiple training modules to help our therapists customize each patient's treatment program. The touch screen system is logical and simple to use while the color printouts make it easy to chart patient progress.

We recently took our Balance System SD to a senior exposition and offered free Fall Risk Assessments with both a physical and occupational therapist. In a little over five hours we performed more than 100 assessments! Our booth was clearly the most visited and, while people were waiting in line for their turn on the balance platform, we had ample time to market our full line of rehabilitation services - a win-win situation!”

“We've found the Biodex Balance System to be very helpful for patients with low back pain or balance problems. We especially like to use this system for strengthening the core muscles of patients with herniated discs, sciatica, or mechanical sacral problems. For many of these patients, we place an exercise ball on the Balance System platform and instruct the patient to maintain balance while leaning on the ball in various positions. The results are significant, and our patients find the exercise to be a very positive experience. We would highly recommend the Biodex Balance System to other facilities working with similar patient populations.”

The Biodex Concussion Management Program Is Both Reliable and Cost Effective

“I'm very happy with the new Biodex Concussion Management Program. Here at the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, we have tried some other balance screening tools in the past but haven't been thrilled with the results. In fact, for some devices, we've questioned the reliability of the data generated. Right now, however, we are very excited with the results from our Biodex BioSway System. Over the past six to 12 months we have made an effort to fully implement the BioSway System and the Biodex Concussion Management Program and, in fact, we are well on our way to making the BioSway the only balance assessment tool we use.

“The major advantage of the Biodex BioSway System and the Concussion Management Program is their objectivity. The tools that we've used in the past have generally relied on the subjective evaluation of the treating clinician to determine if there are deficits in the balance, but the beauty of this new combination is that it gives you very objective results of subtle changes in postural sway. This makes for a much more sensitive tool to evaluate if some of these patients actually have deficits.

“One thing that we especially appreciate about the program is that the software is very intuitive and easy to navigate. We've used it to do screenings on several very large sports teams and found the entire procedure really quite manageable. Because the software is so user friendly, administering the test is easy - and the system generates data in a very reliable fashion.

“In terms of the protocol, we've been very interested in the variability of movement that we see in concussion patients. The BioSway really helps us zero in on that as it shows the variability of balance while the patient is standing on the testing platform. We've found that just as important as how far a person moves from the center of the platform during testing, is how much variability of motion is involved. Because you can evaluate these numbers consistently using either the BioSway or the Biodex Balance SD, this program gives us a portable option with comparable data. That is a big plus and we are very pleased with this aspect.

“From a research perspective we've screened several hundred patients for balance, plus a few hundred more using the concussion protocol. We absolutely see the Biodex Concussion Management Program as becoming more and more important in our plans as concern over this injury continues to accelerate. We believe the BioSway and Balance System SD are important tools in being able to access the changes in postural sway. The cost effectiveness and reliability of the data generated by the program provides good information and the portability to set up where we need to go. It's a reliable and effective combination that provides us with very objective data that, in combination with more traditional subjective measures, helps us assess concussion injuries to the best of our ability.”