The AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill® can be used by anyone looking to improve mobility, strength, or fitness. The treadmill can help patients rehab lower extremity injuries, control weight, maintain cardiovascular condition, retrain gait without awkward compensations from pain or injury, and reduce the risk of re-injury.

For athletes interested in rehabbing faster, training while protecting or recovering from an injury or surgery, or increasing training volume while minimizing stress-related injuries, AlterG allows you to achieve your goals sooner and smarter. AlterG’s Anti-Gravity Treadmill™ technology is a cornerstone in the training rooms of professional sports teams, Olympic training centers, and sports science facilities around the world.

AlterG® Benefits

Research supports the use of body assisted support systems like the AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill® for a wide variety of rehabilitation and training purposes, as they can both restore normal walking and running mechanics and support healing tissue. Overall, use of the AlterG® as part of your treatment at RET can help optimize rehabilitation and improve recovery times. It has also been widely adopted by professional athletes as a training and conditioning tool, because it reduces the risk of impact-related injuries during exercise.

How Does It Work?

The AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill™ features patented, NASA Differential Air Pressure (DAP) technology, a precise air calibration system, based on the user’s actual body weight, to change what’s possible in rehab and training. Using a pressurized air chamber to uniformly reduce gravitational load and body weight in precise 1% increments, AlterG enables patients and athletes to move unrestricted and pain-free – restoring and building muscle strength, range of motion, balance, function, and fitness. No other unweighting technology offers as much precision, accuracy and comfort.

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) Program

HIIT is a frequently applied training method in athletes, leading to improvement in endurance performance and in intermittent (stop-and-go) sports as well. We have used the AlterG AntiGravity Treadmill to design a HIIT program at supramaximal speeds for runners, which would enable them to train at “unknown” speeds for them. “Overspeed” running could help trigger neuromuscular adaptations due to this new type of stimulus.

The AlterG® Anti-Gravity Treadmill™ is used by: