Sports medicine and physical therapists jobs have been made a little easier with the 2012 release of the Dynatron Quad7. The Salt Lake City-based Dynatronics offers the Quad7, which uses thermoelectric technology to combat acute, sub-acute, or chronic pain across a wide range of physical therapy needs.
The Quad7 is unique as a tool developed to improve your rehabilitation toolbox. It features four distinct modalities: cold, heat, stimulation, and compression. When these modalities are combined, they create the ability for you to offer seven treatment options.
Each of your patient-clients is special and each presents different injuries that require unique treatment options to overcome. With one medical device, the Quad7, you as a physical therapist or sports therapist can offer the unique treatment that each patient-client needs to overcome injury and deserves from you as their therapist.
Depending upon the requirements of each of your patient-clients, you can choose the modality or combination of modalities best suited to them. Whether you utilize cold, heat, intermittent compression, cold and compression, heat and compression, cold and stimulation, or heat and stimulation, the Quad7 provides the specific options you need for your individual patient-clients.
The Quad7 offers you with options for both temperature ranges and compression ranges. The new thermoelectric technology provides precise temperature settings in a range from 37 degrees up to 105 degrees. Now you can offer your patient-clients that need cold treatment an option that is free from those messy melting ice cubes.The Quad7 includes three intermittent compression ranges, providing you with options for treating the individual to best suit their rehabilitation needs and the severity of the injury. Compression helps to support and relieve injuries throughout the rehabilitation process, and the Quad7 assists in allowing individually-based rehabilitation programs for each of your patient-clients.
Electric stimulation is an important tool for the physical therapist and sports therapist. The Quad7 features Dynatron's ThermoStim Probes. These Probes combine electrical stimulation with either hot or cold treatment. The Quad7 includes one flat probe and one round probe to allow greater flexibility in treatment options and access to body locations. By combining treatments, the Quad7 helps you save limited treatment time and creates a more comfortable experience for your patient-clients.
What is included with the Quad7? It includes the standard wrapping mechanisms for the knee, ankle, and shoulder. Dynatronics offers optional wraps for the elbow and back. The Quad7 also includes ThermoStim Probes in both flat and rounded designs for improved access options for those hard-to-reach body parts and areas.
Dynatron's Quad7 is a technological advancement in the field of temperature, compression, and stimulation devices. It is a multi-use device that is sure to bolster the physical and sports therapist's toolbox. At the same time, it will increase your success in rehabilitating pesky injuries and make the future lives of your patient-clients more enjoyable.
Chad Beacham,
And Hulet Smith, OT
