Video: A Day In The Life at Columbus Orthopaedic

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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) -Columbus Orthopaedics’ new rehab facility is 1 of only 4 places in the state, that is using speciality equipment to aid in pain free recovery. One of those is the alter G anti-gravity treadmill.. Under the supervision of one of their five physical therapists, you can float your way through rehab. Jase Abraham explains.

“It can take off 80% of your body weight, what are you trying to accomplish with that?”
“You’ll have a lot of injuries, whether its a fracture, that they can’t weight bare when they walk. You will have doctors that will send and make them partial weight baring. They’ll say have them put 50% weight on their leg. There is no way for us to really know that,unless we have this machine.”

Time to suit up, and hit the treadmill.

“Well aren’t those fun? That’s what you zip up in. It is like running on the moon.”
“Its going to calibrate your weight”
“Is it going to say that on here? Putting all my business out there.”
Once the machine gathered all of my information, it was time to get moving. Jase took 20 percent off of my body weight to study my gait.
“That is unusual”
It is what we call a scissoring gait. Your foot, especially on the left, crosses in front of your right”
Is that bad?
No, it makes us look and think, especially in our female runners, that there may be some hip weakness or something like.
Because with every ten percent body weight the machine take for you, you have to add another 1 point six miles per hour to get the same cardio effect.. so he picked up the speed.
“3 POINT 5”
Everyday we’re hustling. What are you doing?
Are these the normal shoes you run in?
No..
See how bad your feet dive in when you run? Nikes are more for looks.
Jase explains that proper footwear can protect you from injury. He took eighty percent off the made
“That is really neat, and I am not even tired.”
“You see these athletes, like the guy from Ole Miss Laquaun Treadwell that broke his ankle, and you see videos of him. He is running in this. Kobe Bryant, the guys that get hurt they are allowed to get into play quicker, because they are allowed to get into this.”
And we’ll see what other equipment they use to get you back on track.. Until then this has been just one more day in the life. In COLUMBUS MICHELLE LOWE WCBI NEWS