Practical use of the Innowalk Pro in a neurological rehabilitation unit
Patients with severe brain damage are treated at the SRH Fachkrankenhaus in Neresheim, South Germany. The specialisted department already combine early rehabilitation therapy approaches with intensive care medicine and thus offer a very specific treatment concept.
Challenge
The daily challenges for doctors and therapists are as diverse as the patients entering phase B of early neurological rehabilitation. Surgical, orthopedic, internal medicine and cardiological aspects must also be considered. Interdisciplinary, cross-collaboration is necessary. In the intensive care unit, patients are sometimes ventilated, require monitoring and are confined to their hospital room.
Solution
The Innowalk Pro is a highly effective full-body movement trainer that can be used by nearly all patients - even those with initially significant limitations in trunk and/or head control.
At SRH Fachkrankenhaus Neresheim easy transfer and mobility of quipmenet is particularly important: The Innowalk Pro can be used directly in the patient room, next to the bed, e.g. directly in the intensive care unit. Therapists can monitor patients simultaneously while making optimal use of the therapy time.
Result
Thanks to intensive and individualalised training, therapy goals can be achieved. Patients learn to adjust their tone or to move from passive movements in the device to more trunk and head control. This leads to increased alertness,motivation andboth physical and mental well-being – ultimately resulting in better training outcomes.
For therapists, the Innowalk Pro means physical relief in their daily work and reduced hands-on time. The focus is entirely on the patients; the professional success becomes visible. The workplace becomes more attractive, and motivation increases on this side as well.
“Of course, therapy goals could also be achieved with hands-on and manpower, but by using equipment we need less hands-on and it is less strenuous for the therapist.”
About the SRH Fachkrankenhaus Neresheim
With its extensive experience in interdisciplinary treatment, the specialist clinic in eastern Baden-Württemberg provides medical and therapeutic services of the highest quality, especially for patients with severe acquired damage to the central and peripheral nervous system.
Following the motto of early rehabilitation, rehabilitation should start as early as possible, beginning in the phase of intensive care
The acute hospital has 64 beds, 24 of which are in the intensive care unit.
201 employees work there, including: specialists in neurology, internal medicine, anaesthesia as well as physical and rehabilitation medicine.