Lower Extremity

Are you hip to the lower extremities? Let's find out!

Current research gives specific recommendations for BFR, including cuff width, material and placement, pressure, exercise, and conditions that it benefits. Let’s look at those specifics along with the history, mechanisms, and benefits of BFR.

Three key advances have dramatically shortened ACL recovery time for UGA football players: post-injury treatment, surgical procedure, and innovative rehabilitation. Because an ACL injury used to jeopardize an athlete’s career, it’s important to build confidence to make a complete recovery.

Researchers from the Sport Performance Center at the AECC University College recently set out to develop testing and training methods for para-Nordic skiers. Along the way, they navigated some unexpected obstacles and disproved their own expectations.

Even on your busiest day, you can squeeze one of these activities into your schedule. Check out this list of ways you can sneak in some activity throughout your busy day:

Faster than you could search it online, this hand-held tool shows you the activated muscle groups, spinal segment, and innervation for 26 different joint-specific movements, both upper and lower extremity.

Let’s take a look at some of these populations, and the outcomes leading researchers have reported from eccentric training. Studies include hip fracture, ACL rehabilitation, TKA, spinal cord injury, Parkinson's and falls.

Marla Tappy's unique approach for creating a cash-pay clinic removes the frustration of insurance billing. She keeps her clients happy with the clinically superior results and engaging experience of the Eccentron.

A close look at two ways of treating ACL injuries in the clinic. One lets the patient start post-op rehab as soon as two weeks after the injury. Research shows that eccentric exercise helps build strength in a short amount of time, helping prevent muscular atrophy. Get your patients back to what they love, sooner.

Many wonderful things happen during the summer time.  Vacations, family walks, outside time with the dog(s) all can be ways that we enjoy our summer days and nights.  But this is also a time that people can experience a spike in lower extremity and even lower spine injuries.  One of the potential causes?  You guessed…

Eccentric-only exercise can generate higher forces at higher intensities with lower energetic cost. This makes it ideal for elderly patients or those with low exercise tolerance. The low energetic cost means they can exercise with greater load on the muscles without straining the joints.

“We have used BTE Eccentron with a variety of different athletes, and we have had outstanding results," says Courson. Learn more about how Ron has been using Eccentron in his training room to rehab athletes and strengthen them post-op, to prevent issues such as quad atrophy.