Anti-Gravity Treadmill | MedStar Health
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The AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill® uses unique differential air pressure technology that provides accurate, safe, and comfortable partial weight-bearing therapy while promoting normal gait patterns.

  • Unique unweighting technology provides the opportunity to rehabilitate lower extremities like never before
  • Precise partial weight-bearing enables accurate implementation of unweighting protocols not found in any other rehabilitation equipment on the market
  • Provides highly effective neuromuscular and proprioceptive retraining
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Uses of the anti-gravity treadmill

It is FDA-cleared for the following functional rehabilitation indications:

  • Rehabilitation following injury or surgery of the lower extremity (hip, knee, ankle, or foot)
  • Rehabilitation after total joint replacement
  • Strengthening and conditioning in older patients
  • Weight control and reduction
  • Aerobic and Sport specific conditioning programs

Unlike the simple lift harness devices, AlterG's unweighting system incorporates differential air pressure technology developed by NASA and enhanced by AlterG to provide precise unweighting in one percent increments to as low as 20 percent of the patient's body weight.

The exclusive precision gives patients the ability to set the exact point where exercise becomes pain free and provides clinicians a way to accurately measure patient progress.

  • Strengthens and improves coordination of muscles, which in turn protects surrounding joints
  • Promotes the full range of motion while minimizing stress during athletic conditioning
  • Enables injured athletes to maximize their fitness retention as they recover

Trainers and coaches have found this treadmill to be a ground-breaking training tool that is changing how athletes train and injured people recover free of interference from water or tethers, which transitions seamlessly back to full weight bearing during sports rehabilitation programs.

Until now, there has not been an effective means for athletes to preserve high fitness levels while they are injured. The AlterG permits injured athletes to reach the aerobic intensity of their regular workouts while lowering the impact on their injured body during training.

Our locations

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MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Irving Street – Neurorehabilitation Center

102 Irving St., NW
MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital
First Floor
Washington, DC, 20010

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Lafayette Centre

1120 20th St., NW
Bldg. 1 North
Floor 1
Washington, D.C., 20036

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Waugh Chapel

2410 Evergreen Rd.
Ste. 100
Gambrills, MD 21054

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Hunt Valley

2 Loveton Circle
Suite G-100
Sparks, MD 21152

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Timonium

2118 Greenspring Dr.
Ste. 200
Lutherville-Timonium, MD 21093

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Perry Hall

5009 Honeygo Center Dr.,
Ste. 209
Perry Hall, MD 21128

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Rosedale – Orthopedic and Hand Center

9101 Franklin Square Dr.
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center
Medical Arts Bldg., Ste. 205
Baltimore, MD 21237

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Federal Hill

1420 Key Hwy.
Ste. 300
Baltimore, MD 21230

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at South Baltimore

2900 South Hanover St.
Ste. 102
Baltimore, MD 21225

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Waverly

1100 East 33rd St.
Ste. 105
Baltimore, MD 21218

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Westminster

412 Malcolm Dr.
Ste. 200
Westminster, MD 21157

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Ellicott City

9501 Old Annapolis Rd.,
Dorsey Hall Medical Center
Ste. 125
Ellicott City, MD 21042

NRH Rehabilitation Network at Bethesda

6410 Rockledge Dr.
Ste. 600
Bethesda, MD 20817

NRH Rehabilitation Network at Chevy Chase – North

5530 Wisconsin Ave.
Ste. 960
Chevy Chase, MD 20815

NRH Rehabilitation Network at Germantown

20500 Seneca Meadows Pkwy.
Johns Hopkins Wellness Center
Ste. 101
Germantown, MD 20876

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Olney

18109 Prince Philip Dr.
Ste. 155 & 355
Olney, MD 20832

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Brandywine

13950 Brandywine Rd.
Brandywine, MD 20613

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Hyattsville

6401 America Blvd.
Ste. 204
Hyattsville, MD 20782

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Oxon Hill

6196 Oxon Hill Rd.,
Ste. 450
Oxon Hill, MD 20745

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Alexandria

6355 Walker Lane.
Ste. 512
Alexandria, VA 22310

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Ballston-Marymount

4040 N. Fairfax Dr.
Ste. 120
Arlington, VA 22203

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at McLean

1420 Beverly Road
Ste. 210
McLean, VA 22101

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at Leonardtown

23511 Hollywood Rd.
Leonardtown, MD 20650

MedStar Health: Physical Therapy at White Plains

4240 Altamont Place
Ste 101
White Plains, MD 20695

301-638-1783