RehaStim has proved itself to be very effective for FES Cycling.  Partnered with a MOTOmed motion trainer, we have many clients around the world routinely exercising at home.  Whether following spinal cord injury or post-acute stroke, this technology has an evidence base supporting its use.  It’s often not considered therapy any more – this is about enhancing quality of life.

However, RehaStim DOES have a powerful role to assist therapists 

who have more general muscle stimulation needs. When you don’t want to use FES as part of a fixed FES Cycling regime there is a version of RehaStim for you.

RehaStim can now be loaded with Sequence Mode software and used as a stand-alone device or even with your own custom motion trainers.  Using a very simple touch screen interface the therapist can set up and store a unique stimulation programme.

For example, suppose you wish to use a custom exercise cycle and in order to achieve cycling you need to activate particular muscles, for a defined length of time in a sequence one after the other.  Or, as a therapist you recognise the potential value in activating particular muscles in sequence during gait rehabilitation.

With Sequence Mode you can select as few as 1 or as many as 8 channels and control the stimulation parameters.

If hospitals are already using a MOTOmed motion trainer they now are increasingly adding RehaStim to offer FES Cycling to their patients.  Now they can go even further and add Sequence Mode software to make their RehaStim an even more flexible and powerful tool.