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The Centre for Sports Medicine at the Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre has a wide range of high-tech equipment, which are used in conjunction with manual therapy to diagnose and treat various injuries. These assist in providing objective assessments and help speed up the athlete’s rehabilitation process. The centre also helps athletes enhance their performance and improve their fitness levels. Some of the specialised equipment our team uses include:

1. Alter G anti-gravity treadmill
   • Rehabilitation post-injury or post-surgery
   • Reduce impact during running for rehabilitation and gait training
2. Primus: A multi-joint dynamometer with a work simulator
   • Physical evaluation and rehabilitation
   • Performance testing
   • Task simulation
   • Restoring functional abilities
3. COSMED VO2 max testing system
   • Measurement of maximal oxygen uptake – VO2 max
   • Cardiorespiratory fitness assessment
   • Calculating the resting metabolic rate (RMR)
   • Velocity-based training (VBT)
   • Tracking speed during exercises to estimate an athlete’s 1 Rep Max
   • Identifying proper training loads during performance fluctuations due to life stressors
   • Enhancing training specificity and monitoring fatigue: Identifying optimal velocities and loads for training (VBT Zones)
   • Assessing performance, ability, and motivation based on movement velocity for immediate feedback
4. Balance assessment system The balance assessment system provides an objective assessment and retraining for sensory and voluntary balance motor control using visual biofeedback, either on a stable or unstable support surface, and within a stable or dynamic visual environment.
5. Robotics at Rehabilitation Medicine
   • Lokomat: The lokomat is a specifically designed robot for walking or gait retraining. Walking difficulties can occur in several neurological conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, Guillian Barre syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and transverse myelitis. It can assist retraining the correct walking pattern with early intervention.
     The lokomat helps by supporting the body weight with a sturdy harness and the exoskeleton provides guidance force by retraining the correct walking pattern.
6. Diego: The Diego is a robot that is specifically designed for rehabilitation of the upper extremities or arms. It allows both arms to be exercised simultaneously or individually.
   Further, it helps by unweighing the arm, making it particularly beneficial for individuals with neurological disorders that impair arm movement due to weakness or spasticity.
7. Rymo: The Rymo is a robot that is designed to facilitate individual joint movements of the upper and lower extremities.
8. RT300: The RT300 bike for both upper and lower extremities will soon be integrated into our rehabilitation suite. It helps by providing a mild electrical stimulation which helps to strengthen the muscles whilst cycling

All the robotic systems have interactive games that are connected with the exercises, which make the process of robotics less cumbersome and more emjoyable!

Robotic rehabilitation has the advantage of helping individuals start on their recovery process early and safely. The key factor is that the number of repetitions a robot can provide are higher than regular therapy, which helps in the early recovery process of many neurological conditions.

6. Gait Lab motion analysis and electromyography (EMG) system

   The state-of-the-art motion analysis system with 13 high-resolution cameras along with the 8-channel EMG system provides our team with a clear picture of how different parts of the body interact when they are in motion. Biomechanical analysis can be conducted for every sport-specific movement and day-to-day task.