Robot Assisted Gait Training
Is the ZeroG Gait and Balance System for your child?
- Has your child plateaued in their gross motor skills?
- Does your child need more opportunity to build strength and endurance?
- Does your child have a diagnosis that affects gross motor development?
- Is your child older than 12 months old?
- Is your child’s daily activities limited by their mobility?
What do I need to schedule my child?
- A complete UCP Intake Packet
- A doctor’s referral for physical therapy
- Recent physical therapy reports
The Aretech ZeroG® Gait & Balance System is a sophisticated body-weight support system that partially unweights children in a “reduced gravity” environment while practicing real-world activities.
The ZeroG® protects children from falls by providing dynamic support as a child practices new or difficult skills. The motorized trolley automatically tracks your child’s movements with advanced fall protection, measuring movement at 1,000 times per second. Since the ZeroG® robot is mounted to an overhead track; there are no barriers such as a walker between a child and the therapist as they move around the UCP gym. With 70-feet of track at our North Valley clinic, toddlers can work on crawling, climbing or first steps while having fun playing and exploring. Older children can work on walking, balancing on one foot, standing from sitting, walking up stairs, skipping and even running up to 5 mph.
Due to the body-weight support, your child will be able to learn new motor skills by practicing skills repetitively by decreasing fatigue. Repetition helps your child to “get it right” to consistently and efficiently perform motor tasks for use in everyday life. Training benefits can be increased walking speed, improved endurance, better balance and accelerated gross motor development to name a few. Your child’s progress can be captured and tracked each session in a secure database. This information can used to create your child’s therapy goals.
With the ZeroG®, your child can feel safe trying new and difficult gross motor skills in a controlled environment during therapy before using their new skills in the community. Interested in robot assisted gait training for your child? The ZeroG® Gait & Balance System arrived at the north valley Laura Dozer campus in July 2022. It is the only pediatric gait and balance system in the Southwest. With a crawling harness, we can help children as young 12 months old and as old as 16 years with an adult sized harness.
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Thank you to our sponsors for bringing the ZeroG® Gait & Balance System to the children of Arizona!
