C-Mill

The C-Mill is an instrumented treadmill intended to evaluate human gait and balance, as well as to train (impaired) gait and balance using treadmill movement, combining virtual and/or augmented reality.

Limitations of Conventional Gait Therapy

Balance & Gait Training

• Lack of task specificity for everyday life
• Lack of objective and sensitive gait assessments
• Limited feedback for the patient
• Limited training duration and intensity
• Monotonous, boring exercises

Advantages of C-Mill Therapy

Effective Functional Gait Therapy

• The C-Mill helps patients train for everyday life’s environments and changing circumstances, like walking in a crowded area or avoiding obstacles. By utilizing virtual reality applications, projections, and force plates. Simulation variables can be changed easily. 
• Therefore, balance, steady gait, dual tasking, and gait adaptability can be improved fast and effectively.

Efficiency

• The time ratio spent on actual training is greatly increased on the C-Mill for both the patient and the therapist.
• Overground walking tracks with obstacles turn, and stepping targets no longer have to be set up, leaving more time for actual exercises.
• Patients can take more than twice as many steps during a C-Mill training compared to a conventional physiotherapy session of the same duration.

Backed by Science

• Therapy on the C-Mill is based on the proven principles of motor learning: the external focus of attention, variable practice, implicit learning, high training intensity, task specificity, and performance feedback.
• To simulate everyday challenges, these principles have been incorporated into C-Mill training in several ways, such as external visual and acoustic cues, variation in exercises, easily adjustable parameters, motivating virtual and augmented reality experience, real-time and after-session reports, and more.

Objective In-Depth Assessment: 

• Extensive data collection allows valid, objective, and highly reliable assessment of balance, gait, and gait adaptability.
• During each stage of the rehabilitation process, C-Mill assessments can be used:
• For balance: static postural control and dynamic weight shifting in four directions.
• For gait: spatio-temporal parameters (step length, step width, etc.), gaitograms, video recordings, and center of pressure pattern.
• For gait adaptability: treadmill projection and virtual reality application tasks to facilitate comparison to walking in daily life presented in a spider diagram.
• All assessment data is clearly visualized and issued as dependable reports.

Monitor Performance Over Time

• A patient’s performance is measured and saved to provide both short- and long-term results and insights.
• This lets the therapist determine a patient’s status as well as efficiently adapt the content for the next training.

Extended Treadmill Training

• The C-Mill offers extended training possibilities through its optional Body Weight Support (BWS) System and additional versatile balance exercise applications.
• Due to the optional BWS system, patients’ body weight can be significantly reduced during gait training, enabling them to start therapy much earlier in the rehabilitation process.
• What started as a treadmill for functional gait training only now offers a variety of optional balance suites, allowing not only for different stages and intensities but also for different types of training.
• Both options enhance early rehabilitation, with the BWS system additionally reducing the therapist’s effort to assist patient ambulation.

Fun, Motivational, and Enjoyable

• Thanks to its functional, safe, and challenging yet fun applications, the C-Mill offers an enjoyable and engaging therapy.
• Various exercise games featuring visual and audio stimuli provide patients with an interactive, varied, and fun therapy full of enjoyable and rewarding moments to keep them immersed and motivated.

 in-depth assessment, C-Mill also delivers a safe and comfortable training environment by combining a treadmill with augmented and virtual reality, and a fall safety system or bodyweight support system

Effective Functional Gait Therapy

Help your patients train for everyday life by simulating challenging situations using virtual reality, treadmill belt projections, and a force plate. Obstacles and targets replicate scenarios such as walking amongst a crowd for interactive rehabilitation methods that help improve balance, steady gait, dual-tasking, and gait adaptability.

 Objective In-Depth Assessment and Monitoring of Progression

Assess static and dynamic balance alongside gait patterns with in-depth information from Spatio-temporal settings, gaitograms, and video recordings. Confidently train gait-adaptability and create robust therapy programs with obstacle avoidance and step target tasks. Generate precise, visual data for short and long-term insights.