The key to rehabilitation is knowing how all parts of the body are affecting the patient's main complaint.  A careful assessment reveals obvious imbalances in hard and soft tissue throughout the body, but the answer to successful rehabilitation is being able to affect the body in all three planes.

Two of the most important muscles to the rehabilitation of the hip and low back, the foot and the knee, and actually the entire lower extremity, have never been adequately addressed - until now.  We have never looked at correcting the rotation of hip issues - which directly affect every structure above and below them.  The hip joint, after all, works ONLY in rotation.  Every muscle that acts on the hip, in rotation, abduction, adduction, flexion, extension and circumduction, causes the hip joint itself, to rotate.

The foot is the primary shock absorber of the body and if it is not working well mechanically, the rest of the body is adversely affected.  We have attended to the muscles of the foot, but never in rotation. The foot works almost exclusively in rotation.  It rotates around all three planes, X, Y, and Z, or Sagittal, Coronal and Horizontal/Transverse.

The Rotex is the first biomechanical rehabilitation device that combines rotation against resistance to affect the muscles of rotation of the hip, which include the gluteus medius and minimus (internal rotators) and the piriformis group (external rotators).  It is also the first to affect the muscles that help rotate the foot - the tibialis posterior and the peroneals - in the body's natural weight bearing posture.

Addressed in the tabs to the left are three common syndromes that are actually epidemic in our society.  You will find these muscles we have addressed above play a large part in the rehabilitation of those syndromes.