Alter-G Antigravity Treadmill is now at Rose City Physical Therapy!
We are excited to announce the arrival of the AlterG Via X Antigravity Treadmill at Rose City Physical Therapy!
Train with the Alter-G Antigravity Treadmill
This state-of-the-art high tech treadmill is revolutionizing fitness by allowing you to run or walk with reduced impact. Through patented NASA technology, the anti-gravity allows you to decrease your body weight up to 80%, while reducing stress and strain on your body.
The benefits of the AlterG include the ability to provide body weight unloading as you walk, run, work on balance, or other leg exercises.
The AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill is chosen by physical therapists, physicians, sports medicine experts, and top athletes as the best low impact walking or running training tool for rehabilitation, improving fitness, and training smarter.
Benefits of the Alter-G Antigravity Treadmill
- Rehabilitation: The AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill is ideal for individuals recovering from lower extremity and spine injuries and surgeries that limit movement or impair mobility.
- Reduce Injury Risk: With the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill you’ll get the most out of your exercise or training programs while minimizing the risk of impact-related injuries and training without pain caused by chronic injury.
- Training & Conditioning: Use the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill to augment training and conditioning routines, enhance performance, and allow individuals to continue working out during injury recovery.
Faster Recovery from Surgery
Exercise, walk, or run under reduced bodyweight without discomfort or pain.
Speed Post-Injury Recovery
Train through injuries while reducing stress on soft tissue and joints.
Reduced Bodyweight Training
Go farther sooner with endurance training.
Reduce Joint Stress
Run with less impact on your joints.
Tool for Rehabilitation
Allows sooner weight bearing and progression of function.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AlterG Work?
The AlterG uses air pressure to ‘unweight’ the user. The treadmill uses progressive unloading to achieve maximum benefits. Rose City Physical Therapy is excited to offer this unique rehabilitation tool to our patients. We’re also making the AlterG treadmill available to the local running community for management of niggles, cross-training, overspeed running, and base volume building.
What do I need to wear?
The AlterG uses its own special shorts that attach to the machine once you are inside. These shorts will fit over your normal running gear (shorts or leggings) when using the machine.
Do I have to have an injury?
No. Whether you are recovering from injury or surgery, working on your endurance, or cross-training, the AlterG is great for just about anyone.
Will my health insurance cover this?
Yes. For our orthopedic and sports medicine patients, your physical therapist and physician or surgeon may elect to add AlterG to your plan of care to assist in reaching your functional goals, which would be covered under your insurance.
For the non-injured recreational runner, or elite and pro athletes, we offer a single use pay-as-you-go option, or punch cards that offer savings versus the pay-as-you-go option. The initial session includes a required orientation to the AlterG.
How do I book an appointment?
For our patients, inquire with your physical therapist if the AlterG is a treatment option to serve you in your recovery. Chances are your physical therapist already has the AlterG planned as part of your care if its appropriate for you.
For the non-injured athlete your initial session will include an orientation to the AlterG. You can call 503.228.1306 or email us to request an initial appointment, or schedule additional appointments.
What is your cancellation policy?
To foster best efficiency of scheduling, the Notice of Cancellation is as follows:
- If your scheduled appointment is before 12:00 noon any given day, you must call by 5:00 PM the day prior
- If your scheduled appointment is after 12:00 noon any given day, you must call before 9:00 AM the same day
For additional terms & conditions regarding our cancellation policy with the AlterG Treadmill please view and download our full cancellation policy here.
Who will benefit from the use of the Alter-G Treadmill?
- Anyone recovering from a low back, hip, knee, ankle or foot injury
- Quicker rehab following low back, hip, knee, ankle, or foot surgery.
- To support a walking program that is too painful with full gravity
- Take pressure off your muscles and joints while never missing a training session because of pain
Features of the Alter-G Antigravity Treadmill
- Weight Bearing Symmetry: Improves weight shifting and reduces risk of pain and joint stress from overuse of the unaffected leg.
- Step Length Symmetry: Improves symmetry to help increase walking and running speed, encourage more efficient gait, facilitate proper muscle recruitment and biomechanicals, and reduce fall risk.
- Stance Time Symmetry: Helps users correct asymmetries to normalize stance time and allow for proper swing phase of gait.
- Cadence: Cadence improvements can lead to faster gait, better mobility, and improved health.
- Symptoms Recording: Correlating gait mechanics and unweighting with patient-reported pain scores helps to establish optimal parameters for physical therapy. Research concludes that appropriate loads are required to rehabilitate specific tissue (i.e. tendon, bone) and with that comes on acceptable allowance of “good pain” that we educate our patients on. Symptoms recording of your AlterG sessions allows adjustments to how much bodyweight unweighting is used to optimize your recovery and design a progressive load program.
Engage better with Live Video Monitoring
Our Via X incorporates Live Video Monitoring to help your physical therapist analyze and understand gait anomalies you may not feel. We can quickly identify and control the effects of unweighting to achieve specific rehab and training goals.
How to Schedule an Appointment
- Choose your option: 1) Individual 30-minute pay-as-you-go sessions or 2) pre-purchase at a discount a 300-minute punch-pass card that allows you to use the AlterG for as little as a 15 minute session to as much as a 90 minute session each time. Click here to email us your initial interest in using the AlterG.
- Schedule your sessions: We will provide a mandatory operations and safety training on your first visit which may take up to 15 minutes and is included in your time for that session. Once this is completed, you may then book multiple sessions at a time if you wish to secure consistent appointments.
- Read about the AlterG and sign the Release of Liability and Waiver: We will email you what you need to know and sign before you use the AlterG for the first time. LOOK FOR THIS ATTACHMENT IN YOUR CONFIRMATION EMAILS and read it carefully.
- Come early for your sessions: You must check in at the reception desk for each session. We require payment at the beginning of any pay-as-you-go individual session(s). If you have a punch-card, please provide it as we will punch each 15-minute bullet equal the time you have scheduled for the AlterG that given session (i.e. If you have a 45 minute block scheduled, we will punch three 15 minute bullets on the punch card). Early arrival also allows you some time to get ready to use the AlterG at your scheduled time.
- Get started! We’ll show you how and get you going your first visit. Once checked off on this, you’re good to go on your own.
- Keep using it! The AlterG is a revolutionary tool, and you will truly experience the maximum benefit when you use it consistently. This is true of any physical movement modality. To make your commitment easier, we’ve made repeat use efficient and affordable.
Alter-G Pricing
We’ve surveyed and we’ve listened to what people want. Accessibility. Flexible duration-of-use. Affordability. So that we’ve created.
- We offer a 15 minute FREE DISCOVERY SESSION if the AlterG is new to you.
- 30-minute Single Session: $30.00
- Punch-card Booklet: 300 minutes for $250.00. This allows use of the AlterG in 15 minute increments to accommodate your training needs.