How OrthoBike Hero Rentals™ Can Work For Your Practice

Basic elements of Hero Rentals™

OrthoBike Hero™: A recumbent therapy bike with adjustable variable length pedals and adjustable seat you can offer to your knee and hip patients for home therapy.

OrthoBike has been employed in clinics and in homes for over 10 years as an adjunct modality for treating knees and hips, especially difficult situations such as arthrofibrosis and contracture, and gives pain-averse, non-compliant patients an alternative to continue progressing.

• It is just a bike; your patients already know how to use it. You don’t have to be there.
• It is more than a bike; it is also an effective therapeutic mechanical modality giving repetitive motion to patients with limited ROM:
  • Patients with <60° flexion can pedal without pain.
  • Patients can adjust the variable-length pedal cranks and seat position according to the customized roadmap to increase flexion incrementally, systematically by 3-5°.
• Patients love cycling without pain (especially pain-averse patients).
• They love controlling the progress of their therapy.
• They love seeing their progress along their therapy roadmap.
• Compliance: 100%.
• Early cycling rehab with OrthoBike gives the patients hope—especially difficult situations—and makes them more compliant to therapy.

How do your patients know how to progress the OrthoBike settings?

OrthoBike Roadmap: A customized chart showing the relationship between seat and pedal settings and the rider’s maximum pedaling knee flexion. It shows them exactly how to progress the settings to incrementally and systematically progress their knee and hip flexion. They control their cycling therapy at home. It gives them exact guidance with milestones and mile markers so they know where they are, where they are going, and when to celebrate.

We teach it and hold their hands until they become independent—about 30 minutes!

OrthoBike Applications

• Cycling exercise immediately following TKA, THA, ACL reconstruction, meniscectomy.
• Prehab and cycling exercise to strengthen knees and improve balance and gait (seniors).
• Reduction of contracture and arthrofibrosis (“intermittent loading in end range of motion changes soft tissue over time”—Robin McKenzie, MDT principle)
• Cycling exercise at limited ROM for non-surgical treatment of torn meniscus, OA, and RA.
• As an adjunct mechanical modality in the clinic that gives your patients repetitive motion.

Published science confirms what OrthoBike clinicians have learned, that patients with limited knee ROM can get vital cycling therapy without pain early in rehab.

Schwartz RE, Asnis, PD, Cavanaugh, JT, Asnis, SE, Simmons, JE, Lasinski, PJ. Short Crank Cycle Ergometry. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 1991;13: 95-100

Goodwin C., Cornwall MW. Effect of an adjustable pedal shaft on ROM and phasic muscle activity of the knee during bicycling. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 1988; 11:259-262.