Continuing its ongoing program of instructional and certification opportunities for professionals across the nation, Motion Therapeutics now incorporates 2 additional live, on-line Webinar sessions to reinforce the Hands On Lab seminar component of its certification process. See below for our schedule of upcoming seminars.

Live Webinar Content

The first of 2 webinars will be offered before the actual Hands On Lab component of the instruction to acquaint attendees with the primary concepts of Balanced Based Torso Weighting (BBTW). Watching the Webinar is mandatory and will allow attendees to gain maximum benefit from the live hands-on portion of the seminar. The Webinar will cover:

• Introduction to Balance-Based Torso-Weighting: BBTW
• Review the evidence
• Discuss clinical application
• Identify static directional loss
• Identify reactive control loss
• Documentation of loss of balance

The second of the 2 Webinars will be a clinical patient review designed to reinforce the previously introduced technical instruction and lab experience.

Calendar of Upcoming Seminars

3-Part BBTW Seminars
(2 Live Webinars, 2-Day Hands on Lab)

June 21, June 22
The Recovery Project,LLC
20000 Victor Parkway Suite 100
Livonia, Michigan 48152

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July 19, July 20
Mission Carmichael Health Care Center
3630 Mission Avenue, Carmichael, CA 95608

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Aug. 16, Aug 17
Brian Center – Durham
6000 Fayetteville Dr,
Durham , NC, 27713

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Aug. 23, Aug 24
Duke University School of Medicine
Doctor of Physical Therapy Division
2200 W. Main Street
Wing A, Kaiser Classroom
Durham, NC 27705

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Motion Therapeutics will be exhibiting at the 2012 CPTA Annual Conference to be held on September 28-29th in Santa Clara, CA.

Please visit Booth 604 at the Santa Clara Convention Center to learn about BalanceWear®, a totally new, wearable “counter-balancing” orthosis that helps control balance and improves mobility in many people.

Motion Therapeutics, provides non-invasive, innovative and new treatment options for Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Ataxia, stroke, and other balance disorders.

Click here to contact us for more information on visiting our booth.

Cindy Gibson-Horn, PT was recently featured on ABC TV Affiliate KGO, San Francisco demonstrating BalanceWear® device and the dramatic improvement possible for MS patients.

Click here to read the story on the KGO-TV website.

Please go to our Contact Page if you have questions on any of our BalanceWear® products.

The very nature of a health care professional is already rendered heroic by the community and patients they serve. The San Francisco Business Times wants to make sure “the true heroes in the health care profession” don’t go unnoticed by publishing their annual list of finalists for their Health Care Heroes Awards. This year, physical therapist, Cindy Gibson-Horn, creator of BalanceWear, has been named to the list. Gibson-Horn’s discovery nearly a decade ago of Balance-Based Torso-Weighting (BBTW) led to the creation of BalanceWear, a semi-custom made orthotic that has helped dramatically improve stability in patients with MS, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, TBI, ataxia and other Sensory Based Motor Disorders (SBMD).

“The San Francisco Business Times’ award brings attention to the health care profession and the numerous advances for patients that are suffering with debilitating illnesses”
Steve Cookston, CEO of Motion Therapeutics, the company that manufactures and markets BalanceWear, has worked with Gibson-Horn the past several years to bring the BalanceWear product line to fruition and credits Gibson-Horn’s passion for her patients’ well-being as a major reason for the product’s success.

“Cindy is committed to giving her patients freedom,” says Cookston. “Balance and mobility are keys to independence as well as being vital to rehabilitation. Having worked with many medical devices and products, BalanceWear is the most inspiring, often taking a patient from being dependent on others to complete liberation.”

“If someone had told me they were going all the way to California from the east coast to see if a vest would help with balance, I probably would have told them they were crazy. But I saw and now I believe! BalanceWear has been a miracle for my mother and our family. Even though she will be 79 on June 25, we have our mother back the way she wants to be and the way we want her to be,” said Kevin Eck.

“I have MS and have used the BalanceWear vest for the last four months. It has made a tremendous difference in my life as I can now walk without my cane. I am walking more than I had using my cane and so am increasing strength and decreasing my possibility for Osteoporosis. I am going places I haven’t in a long time and my mood has improved,” said Lisa Cohen.

“I have used BalanceWear on at least ten individuals with ages ranging from 2 years old to 32 years old. I find that there are immediate positive changes in my patient’s ability to improve static and dynamic balance, improve functional mobility, such as walking up and down stairs without holding onto the railing; the ability to take independent steps without use of an assistive device or help; the ability to run in a straight line with reciprocal arm swing; and the ability to go from sit to stand without losing their balance,” said Elaine Westlake, MA, PT.

Physical Therapist, Cynthia Gibson-Horn, discovered that strategically placed small amounts of weight could counter-balance directional losses and dramatically improve stability in patients with MS, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, TBI, ataxia and other Sensory Based Motor Disorders (SBMD) during clinical applications. This discovery led to the development of the patented BBTW method and BalanceWear, which has now helped hundreds of patients.

Recently, a National Institutes of Health Recovery Grant of just under $400,000 was awarded to Samuel Merritt University (SMU) Physical Therapy Professor Dr. Gail Widener, PT, and Dr. Diane Allen at San Francisco State University to continue research into Balance-Based Torso Weighting (BBTW) and its effects on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) mobility challenges. The first phase of the study validates previous research funded by the National MS Society. The research is currently in its second phase and has led to documented evidence of the efficacy of prior clinical observations.

“The San Francisco Business Times award brings attention to the health care profession and the numerous advances for patients that are suffering with debilitating illnesses,” says Gibson-Horn. “I am so honored to be among the finalists, but I see heroes in my patients who wake up every day with balance and walking challenges that I can only witness. Perhaps it sounds cliché, but this honor is shared between me and my patients. We’re in the healing process together.”

Living Social and Chase has announced a Small Business Grant program that requires a minimum of 250 Facebook votes to be eligible for consideration. Motion Therapeutics, Inc. and our life-changing BalanceWear® therapeutic balance products is an ideal candidate. If you agree, it would be greatly appreciated if you would take a moment of your valuable time to vote for us.

We are deeply committed to making BalanceWear® available to all patients suffering from balance disorders. The funds made possible by this grant will accelerate our ability to train therapists and other healthcare professionals in the novel testing techniques and patient fitment of our therapeutic balance products.

This grant will also permit us to develop a social media platform to create awareness of this new product in both the medical community and with patients.

1. Click the link below to go to the Living Social Website.

www.missionsmallbusiness.com

2. Click the “Log In & Support” button, you will be prompted to log in via Facebook.

3. To cast your vote, type BalanceWear (one word) in the business name field, select California & San Francisco from the pull down menus, then click the “Search” button (see screen shot below).

4. The BalanceWear business listing will then appear on the page with a Vote button next to it. Click the “Vote” button.

After ten years of research and development BalanceWear is now available commercially for people who need balance stability. BalanceWear has helped numerous patients suffering from balance loss caused by neurologic and orthopedic disease and injury, regain their balance, independence and dignity.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2011 – Motion Therapeutics, Inc., the leading provider of noninvasive therapeutic solutions for balance and mobility disorders, today announced that researchers at Samuel Merritt University and San Francisco State received a NIH Recovery Act Grant to study the effects of wearing a strategically weighted vest to improve gait and mobility in people with MS.

This grant comes after the completion of a similar randomized controlled trial which was funded by the National MS Society. The NIH study, being led by Drs. Gail Widener, PT, Ph.D and Diane Allen, PT, Ph.D utilizes the BalanceWear technology invented by Cynthia Gibson-Horn, PT.

“Patients with MS suffer from imbalance and decreased mobility resulting in adverse quality of life changes,” said Gibson-Horn. “In clinical practice I noticed patients having specific balance losses while struggling to complete daily tasks. I developed the BBTW method and stabilizing garment to help patients rebalance and regain control. The NIH study will provide more scientific evidence supporting this balance treatment.” Gibson-Horn has worked with strategic BBTW® treatment therapy with over 400 patients.

“We are delighted by the dramatic patient balance and mobility improvements achieved when utilizing our BBTW treatment therapy,” said Steve Cookston, Motion Therapeutics’ CEO. The therapy relies on a trained clinician performing the BBTW® assessment test and utilizing the BalanceWear vest to strategically place light weights on the torso of the body.

Meet Cynthia Gibson-Horn, PT, inventor of the BBTW® treatment therapy in New York at the Annual MS Family Discovery Day on March 19, 2011. Motion Therapeutics will be providing live demonstrations. Schedule an appointment with Cynthia by emailing cindy@motiontherapeutics.com.

Gibson-Horn will also be teaching the BBTW® method to therapists at the International MS Center in New York on March 20, 2011. To sign up please visit: http://www.motiontherapeutics.com/seminars. Input MTI100 to receive priority registration.

About Motion Therapeutics, Inc.

Motion Therapeutics, Inc., developers of the BalanceWear range of therapeutic garments, provides noninvasive therapeutic solutions for balance and mobility disorders caused by MS, Parkinson’s, Head Trauma, Osteoporosis, and Ataxia, to name a few. Balance-Based Torso-Weighting® is a proprietary evaluation and treatment therapy designed by Cynthia Gibson-Horn, PT in 2004. Motion Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 2010 and has offices in Oakland, Oxnard and San Francisco.

San Antonio, TX (June 1, 2010) – For those who suffer from balance disorders and loss of mobility, promising results from a new stabilizing device may help to reestablish mobility, confidence and independence.  This week, Motion Therapeutics premieres its BalanceWear® Stabilizing Garments at the 24th Annual Meeting for the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers in San Antonio.  The device is worn as a vest incorporating Balance-Based Torso-Weighting® (BBTW®), patented technology providing stability for patients affected by many forms of balance problems.

Current treatment for balance impairment and balance disorders include aggressive exercise. While recovery time varies depending on the patient, some require long-term assistance and years of treatment.  By comparison, patients are noticing “same day” results with the new BalanceWear devices.

“BalanceWear stabilizing devices address directional loss of balance, improving equilibrium, balance and mobility immediately upon application,” says Cindy Gibson-Horn PT who invented the BalanceWear stabilizing garments.  “Using objective tests and measures as well as patterns of weighting the torso according to balance loss, trained professionals can custom fit the garment and weights exclusive to each patient need.”

Gibson-Horn, et all evidence based research findings have been published in several medical periodicals including the Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy, Archives of Physical Medicine, and Journal of Neuro-rehabilitation and Neural Repair featuring functional improvement of patients with ataxia, multiple sclerosis, and parietal stroke.

Balance-Based Torso-Weighting method was developed to correct and support balance disorders associated with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), brain injuries, Parkinson’s disease, and stroke as well as other destabilizing health issues.  The BalanceWear stabilizing devices assist in postural orientation and equilibrium, abnormal automatic postural control responses, and directional postural control dysfunction.

Motion Therapeutics Inc. provides non-invasive therapeutic solutions for MS and other balance and mobility disorders. The company’s patented sensory device technology utilizes its patented Balance-Based Torso-Weighting (BBTW) method of strategic weighting in therapeutic, fashionable garments. Once fitted with the BBTW garment, clients often achieve immediate improvement in their ambulatory ability.

For more information, contact Motion Therapeutics at 310-471-4619.

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