From robotics and sensor technology to virtual reality and gamification, therapists utilize these innovative tools to maximize patient rehabilitation. Additional benefits of these technologies include:

1. Cost savings. Investing in the latest technology can help reduce costs for your clinic in the long run.
2. Standing out from your competitors. Offering a new technology can give you a competitive edge over your competition.
3. Improving patient outcomes. Therapists achieve better patient outcomes by increasing treatment intensity, dose and efficiency.
4. Providing hope to patients. Since these new technologies improve patient outcomes, new hope is given to stroke and traumatic brain injury patients.

Keep reading to learn more about these benefits.

Combining PT and OT with advanced rehabilitation technology can help contain the cost of operating a clinic in several ways.

Built-in software that gathers data and provides metrics, helps eliminate the need for tedious administrative work. Instead of spending time on documentation, practitioners can deliver more therapy in less time or simultaneously treat more than one patient.

With more efficient and superior outcomes, patients may be discharged sooner. Clinics save on insurance costs, and open their schedules for more patients.

When dealing with neurological trauma, such as a stroke, patients and their families seek the highest quality care. Families want to give their loved ones the best chance of recovery. People search for indicators which might be the best facility. Hospital quality rankings, innovative therapy means and word-of-mouth referrals from doctors or the public can help them in their decision.

With innovative technology, clinics can gain a competitive edge in the region.

Bringing the latest technologies to the community sends a message to prospective patients and their families that you take advances in care seriously. Advanced rehabilitation technology can supplement your therapists’ work. Patients regain the function they need to perform activities of daily living (ADL).

Optimal rehabilitation from stroke or other brain injuries requires a high dose of repetitive motions. Therapists often struggle to engage patients in the monotonous exercises needed to build their endurance, coordination, and flexibility. However, fun, therapeutic games and technology can sustain people’s attention and motivate them to complete their exercises. Robotic and computer-assisted technology can also make therapy seem less daunting.

With gait training, in particular, patients are making great strides with robot-assisted therapy. Best practice typically calls for therapists to support their patients while performing certain exercises, like standing and walking, or reaching. Assistive technologies carry out this task. The therapist can concentrate fully on the patient and a correct movement pattern.

For instance, when relearning to walk, some patients can’t lift their feet or use their arms for balance.

Patients have trouble with their cadence and weight shifting as well. Instead of focusing on balancing or fear of falling, devices support the patients and provide the intensive step or repetition dosage that the patient needs to recover.

Robotic devices also protect the therapist from bearing weight or catching patients when they fall. This also helps prevent injury among therapists.

Every therapist aims to improve their patients’ quality of life and help them succeed when they are back in their community. The best reward is to see someone walk out of the clinic when upon beginning therapy they had trouble taking even one small step. New advances in the fields of PT and OT, including innovative technology, push the limits of what’s possible after neurological traumas.

Innovative technology provides hope to patients.