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

Rehabilitation
in your own hands

Arm exercise product for Stroke Survivors

Interview with the inventor of Tailwind

This short article is based on an interview with Sandy McCombe-Waller and Jane Whitall the inventors of Tailwind. The article entitled "A stroke of genius" was published in the magazine Advance for Physical Therapists and PT Assistants, Vol 20, Issue 20, Page 26.

Muscle ‘synergies’ a key to stroke treatment?

Researchers at MIT and San Camillo Hospital in Venice, Italy, have shown that motor impairments in stroke patients can be understood as impairments in specific combinations of muscle activity, known as synergies. Previous work in animals and humans has shown that groups of muscles tend to be co-activated as a unit in predicable patterns, or synergies, across a wide range of movements.

Encore Path in the running for Forbes Prize

Encore Path, partners of Anatomical Concepts in the USA have been chosen as a semi-finalist in the Forbes “Boost Your Business” competition. The winner of the competition gets national media exposure enabling tens of thousands of stroke survivors to learn about a device that could change their lives.

Is it possible to retrain arm movement after stroke?

Every 5 minutes, someone in the United Kingdom has a stroke. Almost half of stroke survivors say that arm movement istheir most frequent physical challenge. The trouble is that until now, there’s been little opportunity for stroke survivors to retrain their arms effectively once released from hospital.

But what if there was a safe, effective way to retrain arm movement after stroke, right in the comfort of your ownhome? There is…. YES! You Can Regain Arm Movement After Just Six Weeks Training

Tailwind (BATRAC) Research Studies

We would like you to know that there are a number of research studies that have investigated the effectiveness of the BATRAC (Bilateral Arm Training with Rhythmic Auditory Cueing) method of exercising arm function for stroke survivors. You will find some details below. Now you know why we call the product implementing this exercise method - TailWind. Tailwind takes the principles of BATRAC and implements them in a consumer friendly, well engineered product that you can take home and use.

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,