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High Intensity Therapy
At The Recovery Project, a specific program will be designed to meet your capability and goals. Read below about some of our high intensity therapies for functional rehabilitation, and then contact us to discuss your customized care.
Weight bearing exercise
Every exercise that uses gravity against your muscles and bones is considered weight bearing; your bones will respond to the weight of your muscles by producing more bone cells. Bones become denser as they strengthen, reducing the risk of breaks and fractures. Also reduced are the occurrences of osteopenia and osteoporosis. These weight-bearing exercises are essential for healthy bones, and an important part of spinal cord injury therapy and functional rehabilitation.
Un-weighted gait training with physical therapists
When treating patients who have experienced nerve damage, or those needing spinal cord injury therapy, people can strengthen their ability to walk even before their body is ready to walk on the ground. Un-weighted gait training is possible using mobility devices at The Recovery Project. We have the latest technology to help you get on your feet again, even before your feet are ready to touch the ground. With this high intensity functional rehabilitation technique, we can assist patients, such as those undergoing spinal cord injury therapy, who haven't been able to walk for months or years make rapid progress. We also have un-weighted treadmill and elliptical equipment.
Aquatic rehabilitation
At The Recovery Project, our certified therapists will help you increase your muscle strength, range of motion and flexibility through aquatic rehabilitation and aquatic therapy. First, the warm water will help relax your muscles and increase circulation. Patients are able to focus on flexibility and muscle strengthening without the stress that land-based therapy can sometimes cause. Our therapeutic pools allow our patients to experience high intensity functional rehabilitation in a low impact environment. These settings can be perfect for patients of all ages to see fast progress and individual attention
Functional electrical stimulation (FES)
We have the latest technology and state-of-the-art specialized equipment for functional rehabilitation. One of the high intensity therapy methods at The Recovery Project is FES, or Functional Electrical Stimulation. This functional rehabilitation technique applies small electrical pulses to paralyzed muscles to improve and even restore their original function. FES can be used to improve breathing, grasping, standing and walking, transferring, and possibly even bladder and bowel function.
Giger MD®
With the Giger MD medical device, the patient's motion easily induces continuous movement of the machine; this encourages fully coordinated motion of the hands, arms, legs and feet. With no strain whatsoever, this state-of-the-art machine is great for spinal cord injury therapy. The linked pedal motion gives a total kinesthetic approach to exercising all the sections of the spinal cord successively. As movement is created, interference waves go down and back along the spinal cord, stimulating neurotransmission, for three-dimensional spinal cord injury therapy. One of the key principles of Giger MD Therapy is coordinated stimulation, which can induce improvement in various parts of the anatomy - including higher cognitive functions. Therapists have seen dramatic results.
The Recovery Project also provides strength and cardiovascular training, and continuing functional rehabilitation.
Patients are always personally assisted by physical and occupational therapists, athletic trainers and personal trainers for spinal cord injury therapy and other high intensity functional rehabilitation.
Frequency for high intensity therapy may be up to 4 hours of treatment per day.
The Recovery Project has two locations in SE Michigan to serve you.
Call 855-877-1944 for more information.
