Examples for indications for the use of CON-TREX systems in rehabilitation:

  • Post surgical treatment of injuries of joints, tendons and ligaments (e.g. after ACL-rupture,  meniscus tears, biceps tendon ruptures).
  • Conservative treatment of acute and chronic disorders of joints, ligaments and tendons (e.g. tendinopathies of the rotator cuff or the Achilles/patella tendon; functional and structural joint  instabilities; rehabilitation after tendon ruptures; acute and chronic disorders of the spine).
  • Conservative and post-operative treatment of fractures.
  • Rehabilitation after muscle injuries.
  • Preoperative training.
  • Postoperative training to shorten the period of rehabilitation.
  • Improvement of muscular and sensory motor capacities in patients with degenerative joint diseases and/or endoprothetic joint replacement.
  • Increase of muscular performance capacity in patients with reduced activity level (e.g.  myocardial insufficiency, apoplectic insult, systemic and neuromuscular diseases).

Advantages in rehabilitation:
  • Systematic training of single muscles or muscle groups, adopted to the individual patient.
  • Documentation of training progress as means of quality control.
  • Evaluation and reduction of muscular deficiencies, insufficiencies and dysbalances (unilateral, bilateral, reciprocal, functional).
  • Determination of relative strength variables (e.g. in relation to anthropometric data and/or different force characteristics).
  • Training of muscles with low impact on joints through high movement speed including Con-Trex unique ballistic movement mode.
  • Optimisation of joint-specific range of motion.
  • Documentation of force progression over entire range of motion.
  • Movement coordination and optimisation of appropriate muscle force applied through immediate biofeedback.
  • Concurrent (co-contractions) and/or differentiated training of agonist and antagonist.
  • Combination of single- and multiple joint movements in test and training. Increase of sensoy motor requirements by fixation / open up of individual degrees of freedom in several joints.