Standing Therapy is a protocol that supports patient programs involving weight bearing, loading, and pressure. Patients with joint instability and remarkable muscle weakness perform standing therapy by utilizing MINI CLINIC ™ Knee Support and Hold-on Bar.

Use of Standing Therapy during acute rehab helps accomplish goals by combining the proven benefits of a standard standing program with those of a reciprocating movement.

Standing Therapy supports individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), neurological injury, cerebral palsy, wheelchair users. Patients can experience the following key benefits:

• Eye-level interaction: Standing devices provide the opportunity to stand and interact with peers and family at eye level. This equipment allows the patient to participate in mild or vigorous activity while enjoying the emotional benefits of being in an upright standing position.
• Trunk Control: By modifying the amount and location of support, physical therapists can challenge the patient’s trunk control and balance. This carries across a patient’s therapeutic goals to improve mat mobility, activities of daily living, wheelchair management and transfer skills.
• Contracture Management and Cardiovascular Training: A gliding program helps prevent contractures at the hips, knees and ankles, secondary to weight bearing and mobility. Standing with a glider frame offers the patient a unique opportunity to control lower extremity movement through assistance from the upper extremities. Because the patient controls the assistance of the upper extremities, he/she also controls the progression of cardiovascular training.