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If you’ve suffered an injury or gone through surgery, you know the recovery process can be long and challenging. Whether you’re a professional athlete or a weekend warrior, a senior citizen or a young competitor, the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill can help optimize your treatment outcomes to get you back faster to the activities you love.

Why People Love The AlterG:
  • Patented NASA technology allows for precise partial weight bearing
  • Rehab and train like never before
  • Professional Teams and Elite Medical Facilities are using the AlterG to revolutionize recovery programs
The science of healing and art of training combine here at AlterG to give you back your health faster. That way, you can spend more time living your life, instead of fixing your body.

How does it work:
Originally conceived by Dr. Robert Whalen to design effective exercise regimens for NASA’s astronauts, Differential Air Pressure (DAP) technology has been adapted by AlterG for use in training and rehabilitation. Cleared by the FDA in 2008, the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill is a medical device that can be used for:

  • Rehabilitation of lower extremity injuries
  • Treatment of neurological conditions
  • Weight reduction
  • Aerobic conditioning
  • General training to combat the diseases of aging

Unweighting is achieved in the AlterG by using air in a pressure-controlled chamber to gently lift the user. Precise calibration using our patented technology allows for very specific unweighting from 100-20% of the users body weight in 1% increments. Something no other unweighting modality can do.

Clinical studies show that these amazing treadmills can help decrease ground reaction forces in walking and running. The restoration of normal gait mechanics is paramount to optimal recovery and can be accelerated by our patented unweighting technology.

Why Unload?

  • Allow for the protection of healing tissue
  • Encourage range of motion
  • Earlier initiation of closed-kinetic chain activity.
  • Prevent disuse atrophy
  • Encourages more rapid return of motor control
 

*Please visit www.alter-g.com, for in depth information, videos, case studies etc. 

ARTICLES:
- Click here to view article on Matthew Booth (SA Soccer Player) and his use of the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill
- Click here to view the article by Barry Getz of the Centre for Sports Medicine, with their feedback on the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill

USERS:
- Click here to see who uses AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmills

HOW IT WORKS?
- Click here to learn about anti-gravity energy expenditure
- Click here to learn about differential air pressure technology