After Spinal Cord Injury?

FES Cycling is a fun and effective way of gaining many fitness benefits following a spinal cord injury.  If you try FES Cycling you will experience the opportunity to rebuild cardiovascular fitness and general health.

FES stands for Functional Electrical Stimulation and this has been the subject of research for many years.  Carefully controlled electrical signals are used to allow a user's leg muscles, for example, to power an indoor exercise bike. 

These products are the outcome of years of research at the University of Magdeburg and the University of Glasgow that allow safe and effective exercise and even mobility.

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Following spinal cord injury there is often a desire to build cardiovascular fitness and wellbeing – restore muscle bulk in the legs - meet the challenge of spinal cord injury with new technology.

For the first time in the UK with the right balance of price, performance and service.

Here is a brief video demonstrating FES Cycling

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Hold these thoughts. You know that spinal cord injury impacts many aspects of life and there is no cure at present.

and .. We constantly hear that all of us need regular exercise to maintain  cardiovascular fitness, muscle tone and even a sense of wellbeing. This is all very well but its easy to see that losing the ability to exercise large muscles of the legs following a spinal cord injury has, until now, meant losing out on effective health-giving exercise.  Our products aim to change this.

Science has known for many years that muscles can be made to contract with carefully design electrical stimulation applied through pads placed on the muscle surface.

In research facilities around the world these techniques have been refined to allow muscles to be controlled in a functionally useful way – hence the term {mosWikipedia Functional Electrical Stimulation} or FES.

It's time to bring FES out of the lab with our range of FES Cycling products.

With these prize winning products, the order and strength of muscle contractions are controlled by a computer system - generating the power in a users muscles to pedal a stationary cycle. The aim is not to provide just passive motion - but to actively engage the user's leg muscles to generate increased muscle strength and improve fitness.

Proven benefits of cycling exercise with Functional Electrical Stimulation are as follows: 

• Training the cardio-pulmonary system for improved fitness
• Rebuilding of muscle strength and bulk
• Improvement of bone density 
• Improvement of blood circulation and reduced risk of bedsores (Decubitus ulcer) 
• Improvement of intestinal and bladder function
• Improvement of responsiveness to insulin (diabetes) 
• Decreases in limb spasticity 
• Improved feelings of well-being 
  

Research by Professor Ken Hunt and Professor N Donaldson focused on FES Cycling after spinal cord injury and found "important improvements in cardiopulmonary fitness, bone density, and muscle bulk and strength" 

On this site you will find information on these products, related research, bibliographies and articles.

Take the chance to learn about these products and see if they could be right for you.

The menu links above  will tell you more about

• RehaMove – FES Cycling system. Advanced exercise technology that you can use to customise a workout and develop muscle power in the lower limbs from your own wheelchair.
• RehaBike – FES tricycle that allows fun and freedom outdoors - or indoor if the weather is unkind.
  
• RehaStim – the heart of the FES Cycling system. A sophisticated controller that is your console to fitness and freedom.
  

And .. Explore some of the public articles using the menus.

Read a draft letter of medical necessity – the NHS doesnt yet prescribe this technology but the case is getting stronger.

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We will send you a Free 30 page guide for you to explore. Once we know more about your needs we will be best able to advise you. If you are interested and the benefits to you are clear we can arrange a home visit.

Oh by the way.. if you have thought these types of products were expensive -

The RehaMove system is extremely competitively priced - without sacrificing quality, function or reliability. Products come with a two year manufacturers warranty.

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