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MOTOmed Letto  The motor driven, user-friendly Movement Therapy System for patients confined to bed. For daily passive, assistive and active movement training from the bed or bench. For patients confined to bed in clinics, skilled nursing facilities or at home. The MOTOmed Letto can be easily moved to the bed, locked reliably and adjusted so that the patient doesn't have to be transferred. It is an ideal assistance for physiotherapy, for initiating mobility, and to prevent contracture, decubitus or thrombosis.
The MOTOmed Letto comes with safety foot shells and the features SmoothDriveSystem, MovementProtector, SpasmControl with automatic direction change and ServoCycling.
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| UCLA Newsletter Article on the MOTOmed |
MOTOmed letto device provides physical fitness for inpatients
Imagine being able to exercise while you sleep! In the liver transplant and oncology Intensive Care Units (ICUs), a device called a MOTOmed Letto allows patients to exercise in bed - sometimes even when they are asleep.
"I am a quadriplegic from an auto accident and currently have no movement or feeling below my chest. I have to travel to Plano HealthSouth Rehabilitation to use the MOTOmed to better my health and life. Many rehab facilities all over the U.S. have this system to help spinal cord injured patients, MS, Parkinson's disease, brain injury, and others. The system has numerous and very significant benefits for me. It reduces the spasticity in my legs allowing me to become more flexible in my wheelchair including transfers from my hospital bed to my wheelchair and vice versa. It decreases abnormal tone and improves circulation, range of motion, strength, and increases endurance. It allows me to maintain the calcium in my bones that leaves the body when a person no longer walks or exercises.
"I'm really grateful for this machine because I work with a lot
of patients who are in the hospital for prolonged periods, so it's
critical to keep them active both physically and emotionally," notes Demetrios Wilson, UCLA physical therapist. "It makes me feel like I'm doing my best to challenge patients while also protecting their extremely vulnerable conditions."
"Over the last several months it has been used by 15 to 20 patients and we have had very positive results. We hope to move it into the medical and neuropsychiatric ICUs soon," says Cindy Jaeger, inpatient physical therapy/occupational therapy manager, RRUCLA.
The device slides over the foot of the bed where two pedals can
be adjusted to fit the patient. A physical therapist sets controls on
either a passive or active-assist mode, depending on the condition
of the patient. A computer monitors how long and how hard the
patient exercises and indicates which side of the body is weaker.
The exercise breaks the monotony of the day and makes patients
feel they are making progress and heading toward rehabilitation.
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