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.

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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
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Arm exercise product for Stroke Survivors

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.

Recovery of arm movement following stroke

After Norris Turner's stroke a decade ago, he would tuck his right arm into his pocket to get the nearly useless limb out of the way. Now the 68-year-old grandfather from Columbia can use the arm to play catch with his grandson and hit a golf ball nearly 100 feet. In an article in the Baltimore Sun on the 30th Marc, Turner's progress in recovering arm movement with Tailwind was examined.

Sandy McCombe Waller coaches Norris Turner, 68, of Columbia on a new exercise device for stroke survivors called Tailwind (BATRAC) at the University of Maryland

Turner's progress has made him something of a poster child for a machine called the Tailwind. It's licensed and for sale by researchers from the University of Maryland who invented it and a local entrepreneur who believed it could help patients like Turner. "We think there is tremendous potential for this device," said Sandy McCombe Waller, who worked on the Tailwind with her colleague Jill Whitall. Both are professors in the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Turner was a test subject.

Tailwind for Stroke takes off in the US - UK Soon

A device invented by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to help stroke survivors recover the use of their arms is being launched commercially in February at a meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) in Las Vegas. The in-home device — originally called Bilateral Arm Trainer with Rhythmic Auditory Cueing (BATRAC) — was co-invented by Jill Whitall and Sandra McCombe-Waller in UMB’s department of physical therapy. The product will be available in the UK in June from Anatomical Concepts (UK) Ltd.

Stem cell research for stroke treatment

PLANS to start testing a stem-cell treatment for strokes were welcomed last month, as patients become more anxious for therapies to emerge from this often controversial area of science. Some campaigners believe the advance is not such good news, and will lead to a risky treatment being tested on Scottish patients. Scientists, on the other hand, have defended the trial, which will involve injecting cells made from a human foetus ino patient's brains.

Glasgow stroke therapy 'among best in Europe'

LIFE-SAVING treatment for people who have suffered strokes in Glasgow has been hailed among the most successful in Europe according to The Scotman Newspaper.

The Southern General Hospital, where the stroke unit gives clot-busting drugs, has been praised in a report issued on the 24th February by the Stroke Association.

Coffee 'cuts stroke risk'

Drinking two cups of coffee a day 'cuts stroke risk by 20%',” reported The Daily Telegraph. It said a study that followed over 80,000 women for more than 20 years showed that those who drank more coffee were less likely to have a clot on the brain. The newspaper said that the results were a “surprise” to researchers,