Can I Benefit from Tailwind?

Tailwind is a new research-backed exercise device allowing stroke survivors and other brain injured people to improve arm function and range of motion.
To use Tailwind effectively takes effort. To qualify to use it the most important question to ask is: Do you have some forward movement at your shoulder?
Starting with your affected (weaker) arm at your side, can you swing your arm forward 3 inches from the shoulder?
If you can answer “yes” to this question, Tailwind could help you improve your arm movement.
As with any exercise program, ask your healthcare professional to make sure that you are ready for a home exercise program.

Who are Anatomical Concepts (UK) - We are Masters of Rehabilitation Engineering. Working with private individuals, healthcare professionals, businesses and the NHS since 1996.

Introducing Tailwind

Here you can learn about Tailwind^™, a unique device that clinical studies have demonstrated can permanently improve arm movement in stroke patients who have lost upper extremity function - even years after their stroke event. The device is also helpful in improving arm function following brain injury, tumor and cerebral palsy. Tailwind is a home-based exercise device developed by researchers at the University of Maryland Medical School.

Effective for Stroke Survivors

Tailwind consists of two handles that move along independent resistance-free tracks. The user moves the handles along each track from different starting marks - and has auditory cues to guide when to move his or her arms. It is a "sound-to-brain" neural pathway retraining approach that is theorised to help users with mild stroke symptoms achieve life-altering results.

First of a Kind for Stroke

Tailwind has been demonstrated in clinical studies to permanently improve arm movement in stroke patients who have lost upper extremity function. In published clinical studies, the science behind Tailwind was found to be a potentially useful solution in stroke rehabilitation. So don't let discouragement from years of rehab that did not deliver the results you wanted prevent you from trying new Tailwind. If you have the motivation to work with this device, research suggests it will work for you.

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Tailwind - BATRAC

An exercise device proven to improve arm movement in stroke survivors in as little as 6 weeks.
Based on the BATRAC technique

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Arm exercise product for Stroke Survivors

Tailwind Product Comes to UK

Tailwind is a new arm exercise technology designed to help stroke survivors recover arm movement. Based on research method called BATRAC, or Bilateral Arm Trainer with Rhythmic Auditory Cueing, it works by helping the brain to move the arms after a stroke or other brain injury. For more information about the science behind the Tailwind, please read about the clinical trials on this site. The product launches in the UK in June,

Armexerciser on Squidoo

We have created a new "lens" on Squidoo about Tailwind. The lens is called " Arm Exercise for Stroke" and the web link is as follows:
http://www.squidoo.com/armexerciser
What's a lens? and what on earth is a Squidoo? Well if you haven't heard of Squidoo its worth a look because it has thousands of one page web sites bringing together information on thousands of niche topics. Take a look. You will find its interesting.

Our lens presents a look at Tailwind in a neat one page format.

Clinical Studies- Stroke therapy for arms

University of Maryland Medical School inventors and researchers devised the Bilateral Arm Trainer with Rhythmic Auditory Cueing (BATRAC™) as a way of helping stroke survivors exercise safely to recover arm movement.

To study their theory that BATRAC could work, Maryland researchers conducted several clinical trials beginning in 2000, in which more than 100 patients were studied.

In one trial, BATRAC users were randomly assigned to use BATRAC for one hour, three times a week, for six weeks.

After six weeks of using the device, stroke survivors improved their ability to use and control their muscles and movements. These changes were also noticeable in patients who had their stroke as many as 20 years previously. Since then, the unique, research-based benefits of BATRAC have been incorporated into Tailwind^™.

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Stroke survivors benefit from Tailwind

Any stroke survivor who has arm weakness will like the sound of a new product about to launch in the UK. Take a closer look at TailWind – you will see a new exercise technology designed to improve arm movement and strength following a stroke. In research studies its been shown to help individuals recover even many years after a stroke. And we know that 44 percent of people who've had a stroke will normally have to tolerate arm weakness. Stroke is actually common you know. It’s like this. Every five minutes someone in the UK has one. That’s an estimated 150,000 people per year. If you’re a male the bad news is that almost one in four men aged 45 can expect to have a stroke if they live to 85. Women are slightly better off with odds of one in five.

Gene may increase stroke risk

MILLIONS of people may be carrying mutations in their DNA that greatly increase their risk of stroke, research has shown.

A study of 19,600 individuals found two previously unknown genetic variations that significantly affected the chances of having a stroke.