Mobility equipment
Discover how our state-of-the-art equipment can aid in our patient recovery plans
Specialist equipment at Circle Rehabilitation in Birmingham
Our facilities boast some of the latest equipment and technologies, to help accelerate your recovery or manage your condition. Take a look at our range of equipment below to find out more how our equipment can aid in our patient recovery plans.
Motor skills and coordination
Motor skills and coordination equipment, such as the Myro and Amadeo, helps improve hand and arm movements. They use fun games and activities to make therapy engaging and effective for regaining motor skills
Myro is a varied and versatile interactive therapy tool that supports task-orientated rehabilitation. This approach is based on the principle that engaging in functional activities, rather than isolated exercises, can lead to better outcomes in terms of improving motor skills, strength, and overall functional ability.
The device focuses on improving and maintaining the following areas:
- Upper limb gross motor skills (movement skills that involve the large muscles of the body, such as clapping and climbing stairs)
- Fine motor skills (movements using the small muscles in our hands and wrists, such as holding a pencil or fastening a button)
- Hand-eye coordination
- Cognitive function training (brain training)
Individuals can choose from a variety of interactive games which can be completed alone or in multi-player mode.
The Myro can be positioned vertically and horizontally, and the height adjustable facility can be tilted from 0-90 degrees. Clear visual feedback outlining accuracy is provided whilst each task is being performed.
Benefits:
- The Myro creates opportunities to improve the user's active range of movement by working on specific movement patterns to support in the engagement of activities needed for daily living
- It facilitates the improvement of hand function, through completion of grasping and pinching object tasks
Conditions treated:
- Stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Acquired brain injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Spinal cord injury
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Musculoskeletal conditions
- Muscle weakness
The Amadeo is a unique robotic sensor-based device that is designed to replicate natural gripping movements.
It offers a fun and interactive way to support patients who want to improve hand strength, achieve a natural range of movement and reduce spasticity.
Benefits:
- The Amadeo can be adapted to best suit the hand and finger movements of each individual user
- Therapists can choose different tasks on the ’Amadeo’ including passive, assisted and active
- The Amadeo offers a variation of interactive target-orientated tasks
- The device motivates individuals via clear visual feedback and assessment of progress
Conditions treated:
- Neurological conditions
- Stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Acquired brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Musculoskeletal conditions
- Muscle weakness
Movement and gait training
Movement and gait training equipment, including devices like Pablo and LiteGait, supports both upper and lower body movements. They provide support and accurate feedback to help patients safely improve their mobility and walking skills
The Pablo is used in therapies for hand, arm, shoulder and trunk.
The device enables a therapist to dynamically position motion sensors where they need them, and to utilise numerous accessories to gather accurate movement data for patients of all impairment levels.
The device includes a range of assessments designed to gather movement and strength data. It also allows the patient to engage in task focused virtual games on the device by utilising their available range of movement. Task focused games are highly motivating and encourage the patient to engage in repetitive movement therapy unlike a standard upper limb programme.
Patients’ individual electronic data reports can be exported from the system, to help the therapist to track progress accurately over time. The therapist can adjust the control settings and increase difficulty parameters allowing therapy that is orientated to the patient's performance level.
Benefits:
- Pablo creates opportunities to improve active range of movement by working on specific movement patterns to support engagement of activities of daily living
- Improvement of hand function through completion of grasping and pinching object tasks
Conditions treated:
- Stroke
- Multiple sclerosis
- Acquired brain injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Spinal cord injury
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Musculoskeletal conditions
- Muscle weakness
The LiteGait provides postural control and weight-bearing assistance for fall-free therapeutic activities (activities designed to be safe and minimise the risk of falls).
It permits the clinician to be hands-free when working with clients to focus on better quality and increased quantity of practice.
The LiteGait supports the patient's body weight only where needed, allowing normal weight-bearing walking when appropriate. The overhead straps help maintain an upright and balanced posture, even for those unable to do so on their own.
LiteGait therapy lets patients safely engage in increasingly challenging activities early in the rehabilitation process and throughout their treatment. LiteGait therapy helps clients with lower extremity pain, weakness in the legs and trunk, weight-bearing restrictions, amputations, reduced cardiopulmonary function, and poor activity tolerance.
LiteGait therapy also allows higher-functioning clients to be challenged and progress in a fall-free environment. It is used over ground or with a treadmill, for balance and standing activities.
Benefits:
- Enhances walking abilities, balance, and overall movement quality
Conditions treated:
- Back and spinal problems: Prolapsed disc, back pain, fractured spine, sciatica, spondylitis and spondylosis, symphysis pubis dysfunction
- Pain management: Arthritis, fibromyalgia, ME
- Neurological conditions: Stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Orthopaedic conditions (post op): Pre- and post-knee surgery, ACL knee surgery, ankle fusion surgery, femur replacement, fractured foot, fractured pelvis, hip replacement, shoulder surgery, spinal surgery
The Alter G anti-gravity treadmill uses technology to speed up rehabilitation by allowing the patient to train in a pain-free environment, encouraging longer and more intense training sessions, without the risk of injury.
The Alter G has specially developed shorts that zip into the device, generating a vacuum that take away up to 80% of an individual’s body weight. This reduces the impact on damaged joints and creates an optimum environment for gait re-education, running and exercise. The patient can progress by the therapist gradually increasing the weight-bearing load or the speed and incline of the treadmill.
The treadmill can provide real-time gait data, pain recording, and live video monitoring to deliver measurable information and visual feedback for improved clinical results.
Benefits:
- Allows pain-free movement
- Enables weight-bearing exercise sooner while protecting sensitive healing tissues
- Encourages range of motion, shown to improve outcomes
- Reduces gravitational forces to help maintain – or regain – healthy conditioning
Conditions treated:
- Neurological conditions: Stroke recovery, traumatic brain injury (TBI), incomplete spinal cord Injury, Parkinson’s disease, Cerebral Palsy
- Obesity
- Chronic conditions: Functional decline, diabetes, peripheral artery disease, arthritis & inflammatory joint diseases, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)
- Orthopaedics including: Post-fracture, post-operative rehab, ACL reconstruction, meniscectomies & meniscus repairs, micro fracture, total hip & total knee replacement, Achilles reconstruction
- Athletic performance: Increase training volume safely, high intensity interval training, overspeed training, lateral and retro walking, plyometric drills (skipping and single leg hopping), active recovery
Balance and stability
Balance and stability equipment, such as the Tymo and Balo, help patients improve their balance and core strength. These devices use interactive games and exercises to make balance training more effective and engaging
The Tymo is a posturography system (a tool used to assess and quantify an individual's balance and posture). This tool allows the therapist to complete accurate assessments of a patient’s static and dynamic balance in either sitting or standing.
It comes as part of the Tyrostation - a multifunctional rehabilitation system designed to assess, train, and improve patients' upper and lower limb functions. This means both assessments and games are interactive on the computer screen for the patient to gain visual feedback and to aid the therapist’s analysis of the patient.
The device not only measures static and dynamic balance but allows the patient to work on postural control and core stability as games can be played by the force going through the device. It can measure front-back and side-to-side movements by adjusting the platform's weight.
The device also comes with accessories, such as a foam cushion allowing the assessments and games to be completed on an unstable surface.
The therapist can download all of the data captures, to keep track of the user’s progress.
Benefits:
- Improves core stability
- Provides accurate measures of and improves balance
Conditions treated:
- Neurological conditions (such as stroke and multiple sclerosis)
- Any condition where balance and core stability require improvement
Balo is a training device that helps the user to stand or maintain a standing position. It assists the patient in moving from a sitting position, to standing and also helps to control the movement from a standing to sitting position.
During the process of standing up, the user is able to interact with the technology meaning they gain cognitive stimulation (mental engagement) as well as opportunity to develop their motor and sensory skills.
Balo is able to record the results of its assessments and games, and users are able to rank the difficulty of each task by using a visual feedback tool.
Benefits:
- Balance training
- Perception training
- Partial weight relief
- Standing benefits
- Contracture prophylaxis
- Greater stability in the hip and in the upper body
- Improvement of the respiratory system
- Improved circulation
- Osteoporosis prophylaxis
- Positive effects for the digestion system
- Positive effects for the upper urinary tract
- Reduced stiffness
- Social integration
Conditions treated:
- Neurological conditions
- Multiple sclerosis
- Stroke
- Paraplegia / tetraplegia
- Muscular dystrophy
- Brain injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Other neurological problems
- Many musculoskeletal problems where balance is a concern
Muscle and joint rehabilitation
Muscle and joint rehabilitation equipment, including G Move and shockwave therapy devices, focus on helping muscles and joints recover. They reduce pain, improve mobility, and aid in healing through various treatments
The G Move uses pressotherapy (using controlled air pressure to improve lymphatic drainage and circulation) to help with recovery by reducing swelling after surgery and providing a relaxing effect after physical effort.
It is perfect for toning muscles and joints, relaxing muscles, reducing fatigue, preventing pain and cramps, and helping patients with neurological injuries become more aware of their lower limbs.
It also provides ’proprioceptive’ feedback (the body's ability to sense its own position, movement, and balance) to patients with neurological injuries, helping them to become more aware of their lower limbs.
Benefits:
- Balance training
- Perception training
- Partial weight relief
- Standing benefits
- Greater stability
- Improved circulation
- Reduced stiffness
- Social integration
Conditions treated:
- Neurological conditions
- Multiple sclerosis
- Stroke
- Muscular dystrophy
- Brain injury
- Ehler-Danlos syndrome
- Cerebral palsy
- Other neurological problems
- Many musculoskeletal problems where balance is a concern
Balo is a training device that helps the user to stand or maintain a standing position. It assists the patient in moving from a sitting position, to standing and also helps to control the movement from a standing to sitting position.
During the process of standing up, the user is able to interact with the technology meaning they gain cognitive stimulation (mental engagement) as well as opportunity to develop their motor and sensory skills.
Balo is able to record the results of its assessments and games, and users are able to rank the difficulty of each task by using a visual feedback tool.
Benefits:
- Balance training
- Perception training
- Partial weight relief
- Standing benefits
- Contracture prophylaxis
- Greater stability in the hip and in the upper body
- Improvement of the respiratory system
- Improved circulation
- Osteoporosis prophylaxis
- Positive effects for the digestion system
- Positive effects for the upper urinary tract
- Reduced stiffness
- Social integration
Conditions treated:
- Neurological conditions
- Multiple sclerosis
- Stroke
- Paraplegia / tetraplegia
- Muscular dystrophy
- Brain injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Other neurological problems
- Many musculoskeletal problems where balance is a concern
Motivational and engaging therapies
Motivational and engaging therapies equipment, such as virtual reality systems, provides immersive and interactive rehabilitation experiences. These tools make rehabilitation more engaging by tailoring exercises to each patient’s needs, encouraging high-intensity workouts for better recovery
Augmented and fully immersive virtual reality can be easily personalised and dynamically adapted. This enables therapists to provide high intensity and high dose rehabilitation while motivating patients to adhere to their exercises and improve recovery efficiency.
Therapy is tailored for each patient's unique rehabilitation journey. Making rehabilitation interactive, immersive, and engaging. This improves outcomes and recovery.
Benefits:
- Balance training
- Perception training
- Standing benefits
- Greater stability
- Improved circulation
- Reduced stiffness
- Regaining walking ability
- Promotes natural gait pattern.
- High repetitions
- Increasing gait speed efficiency
- Improving persistence
- Improve function
Conditions treated:
- Neurological conditions
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson's disease
- Stroke
- Muscular dystrophy
- Brain injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Other neurological problems
- Many musculoskeletal problems where balance and upper limb function is a concern
Strength and cardio fitness
Strength and cardio fitness equipment, including premium gym equipment and Concept2 rowing machines, offers comprehensive solutions for rehabilitation and fitness. These high-tech tools support rehabilitation and fitness goals with adjustable settings and real-time feedback
At Circle Rehabilitation, we pride ourselves on offering a range of premium gym equipment to support our patients' rehabilitation and fitness goals.
Our state-of-the-art facilities are equipped with the latest technology, enabling comprehensive rehabilitation exercises and advanced physiological testing for sports performance. This includes lactate threshold and VO2 max testing, essential for optimising training and recovery protocols.
Our premium gym equipment is designed to cater to a wide variety of rehabilitation needs, providing versatile and effective solutions for patients recovering from injury, surgery, or managing chronic conditions. The equipment is also used for enhancing athletic performance, offering precise measurements and feedback to fine-tune training regimens.
Benefits:
- Advanced physiological testing
- Versatile rehabilitation options
- High-quality technology
- Improved strength and endurance
- Comprehensive monitoring
- Customisable workouts
Conditions treated:
- Post-surgical rehabilitation
- Sports performance enhancement
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Chronic condition management
- Musculoskeletal recovery
- General fitness maintenance
The Concept2 is a best-selling make of indoor rowing machine. It includes a performance monitor which offer immediate feedback on every pull that the user takes, and performance data at the end of the session. The variable damper setting and option of using partial or no leg compression makes this piece of equipment particularly suitable for rehabilitation.
The lactate monitor values help determine the correct training intensity, more accurately than by measuring heart rate alone, which helps to safely increase power and endurance.
The VO2 max indicator shows your maximum oxygen consumption rate as measured during incremental exercise. This reflects a person’s level of aerobic fitness and is an important determinant of their endurance capacity.
This machine sits in our rehabilitation facility, alongside other high tech rehab machines such as the AlterG and the Hydro Physio aqua jogger.
Benefits:
- Customisable resistance
- Low impact
- Improved cardiovascular fitness
- Full-body workout
- Motivational tools
Conditions treated:
- Cardiovascular conditioning
- Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
- Endurance training
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Orthopaedic recovery
- General fitness maintenance
Measurement and feedback devices
Measurement and feedback devices, such as the HUMAC NORM isokinetic machine, are used to evaluate and improve muscle strength, endurance, and power. They help identify weaknesses and monitor progress during rehabilitation to ensure effective recovery
The HUMAC NORM is a type of exercise equipment that assesses human performance by measuring and controlling the speed of joint movement during muscular contractions. It is commonly used in physiotherapy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation settings to evaluate and improve muscle strength, endurance, and power.
The equipment offers attachments to perform 22 isolated joint movement patterns covering the shoulder, elbow, wrist, knee, hip, ankle and back and 4 resistance modes (isokinetic, isotonic, isometric, and passive). It can provide a variety of measurements including peak torque (the maximal amount of force produced by muscles) and work (the amount of energy expended during the movement).
The equipment works by resisting the movement of the joint and controlling the speed of the movement. This allows for accurate measurements of strength through the range of motion of the joint and identify possible muscular imbalances or weaknesses in individuals recovering from injury.
Benefits:
- Accurate performance measurement
- Customised resistance modes
- Isolated joint movement
- Identification of imbalances
- Enhanced recovery
- Comprehensive joint coverage
Conditions treated:
- Post-surgical rehabilitation
- Sports injuries
- Neurological conditions
- Chronic pain management
- Orthopaedic injuries
- Muscle imbalance correction