FreeStep SAS – Supported Ambulation System

Supports weakened or balance deficient patients without using additional floor space or requiring additional staff.
Biodex FreeStep SAS is an overhead track and harness system that provides a safe ambulation environment for both therapist and patient. Without the fear of falling, patients can focus more fully on their tasks of gait and balance. Likewise, therapists can focus on assisting, rather than supporting.
A safe environment for enhanced medical rehabilitation (EMR)
What’s the best way to practice falling?
Practice falling in a safe environment.
– Reactive postural control training – practice slip/trip reaction
– Enables enhanced medical rehabilitation (EMR) intensive task-specific rehabilitation
– Requires less staff, even for difficult patients
– Improves patient outcomes
Safe Patient Handling and Mobility. The need is clear. A startling 62% of PTs and 56% of PTAs reported injury to the low back while assisting patients1 and for stroke patients alone, as many as 39% were reported to have fallen during inpatient rehabilitation2.