Senior gymnastics – Improve your gait safety [Guide]
Anyone can be active and mobile – even in old age. With a little practice and a training plan tailored to you, you too can have fun training your mobility in everyday life.
TOPRO Step in rehabilitation. Nowadays, neuroscience can prove that rehabilitation is more successful the earlier mobilization begins.
Another important point is that therapy now aims to involve patients in normal life and everyday activities early on, as we humans are social beings. This is essential for a speedy recovery.
Especially after a fall on the stairs and a resulting hip fracture, or after strokes such as suffering a stroke, the musculoskeletal system often needs to be trained – keyword gait rehabilitation.
Neuroscience can now demonstrate that rehabilitation is more successful the earlier mobilization begins. Another important point is that therapy now aims to involve patients in normal life and everyday activities early on, as we humans are social beings. This is essential for a speedy recovery.
There are numerous aids used in gait rehabilitation. Whether it be robotics-assisted gait trainers or end-effector devices that contribute to relearning walking.
However, these are only used in support of the traditional gait training with therapists, as they cannot completely replace them. The same applies to stair gait training.
Depending on the severity of the restricted mobility, the person receives support from therapists during stair training, and in rehabilitation centers, training is not done without a therapist anyway.
In addition to therapists, TOPRO Step can be used as a therapy device for stair training as well as an everyday aid for overcoming stairs.
TOPRO Step not only serves as a stair climbing aid in your own home to safely and supportively accompany you while climbing stairs, but is already actively used as a therapy device in many rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, and senior care facilities.
The smart design not only helps the patient, but also ensures that the therapists who train patients in stair climbing receive support. The handle can be used both in front of and behind the patient.
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If the handrail is placed in front of the patient, the patient can hold onto it and thus receive the support and security needed to climb the stairs safely. When going up the stairs, the patient can pull themselves up on the handrail if necessary without having to fully rely on their arms for strength.
If the handrails on the right and left are used instead of the TOPRO Step, the force is usually not on the legs, but on the arms. As a result, the patient does not experience a physiological process of climbing stairs and the leg muscles are not strengthened to the same extent as with the TOPRO Step.
This is due to the posture, as you can stand upright with a support directly in front of the body. In addition, this also improves the core muscles and at the same time the posture.
When going down the stairs, the patient can also hold onto the handrail and therefore has physical as well as mental security when climbing stairs.
Often patients who need to train or relearn stair climbing are afraid of going down the stairs – it is comparable to a steep slope or a mountain, from whose peak one looks down into the depths.
Having the TOPRO Step in front of you prevents a possible fall and allows you to go down the stairs more safely and relaxed.
Especially in the therapeutic situation, the holding grip can also be used behind the patient. When going up the stairs, this serves to secure the patient against possible backward falling and consequently supports the patient, as well as the therapist who accompanies the patient from behind.
Rehabilitation with or without therapist
Depending on the severity of the illness or diagnosis, the TOPRO Step can be used as a therapy device with or without the support of a therapist.
In Germany and Austria, TOPRO Step is used in rehabilitation centers and nursing homes to keep seniors more active and promote independent stair climbing. In the long run, this offers the great advantage of maintaining one’s own mobility and independence.
We visited the Geerlofs Rehabilitation Center in Pforzheim, where the stair climbing aid TOPRO Step has been installed since the summer of 2017. There, therapists regularly work with the TOPRO Step as a supportive tool to practice stair climbing together with patients such as Dmitri Tschatschin, who has been in a wheelchair since 2016 due to an incomplete spinal cord injury.
To the training with the TOPRO Step, he tells us the following: “If you sit in a wheelchair for a long time, then it is a stupid habit to do everything with your arms. You shouldn’t actually do that. TOPRO Step’s big advantage is that you have to do a lot from your legs for therapy purposes, and that is what is important.”
We spoke with Barbara from Weimar about using the TOPRO Step as a therapy device at home. Barbara has been in a wheelchair since 2015, after contracting the so-called hospital germ (MRSA germ) through a knee prosthesis surgery.
After about ten operations in the last three years, she can now – through her unwavering will – finally take a few steps independently again. Barbara has had the TOPRO Step installed at her home since summer 2017 and regularly uses the stair climbing aid with the support of her husband Rudi.
Together, the two of them train stair climbing and saw good progress in Barbara after a short time.
TOPRO Step can be used as a training device for both adults and children. Our youngest user, Peder, is six years old and has cerebral palsy (CP). Previously, he was unable to climb stairs at all. Since he installed TOPRO Step at home, he can now go up and down the stairs completely independently.
But not only has his walking function improved significantly, but also his mood. Peder’s mother also told us that his core muscles and posture have improved for the better through the regular use of TOPRO Step at their home.
Peders mother reports: “After my son started using the TOPRO Step regularly, we noticed a big difference when climbing regular stairs. He has much more core muscle strength and his posture has greatly improved.”
It is evident that TOPRO Step contributes positively to muscle building and motivates the individuals to continue moving. TOPRO Step helps the individuals overcome potential physical and psychological barriers and ensures safe stair climbing both physically and mentally.
By regularly using the TOPRO Step, the person affected slowly rebuilds their muscles or maintains the existing muscle mass. This greatly contributes to strengthening balance and reducing the risk of falls, ensuring safer walking.
To carry out an on-site inspection and receive a quote, make an appointment with us. Once you have accepted the quote, we will carry out the installation, which usually only takes a few hours.
TOPRO Step is TÜV-tested and certified and meets all functional and safety requirements.
TOPRO Step is designed so that it can be easily adapted to your staircase. It can be installed on straight stairs, curved stairs and stairs with a landing.
Ask your health insurance company about the possibility of cost coverage or possible subsidies. Please note that these options are country-specific and individual.
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Anyone can be active and mobile – even in old age. With a little practice and a training plan tailored to you, you too can have fun training your mobility in everyday life.
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People who have difficulty climbing stairs at home can find many solutions to this problem. The purchase of a stairlift has been one of the most common solutions to date. In this article, we will therefore look at why a stairlift is not always the best solution. And what you need to consider when buying a suitable stairlift.
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