
BioSway Therapy
The Biodex BioSway system challenges patients to shift and control their center of gravity through interactive balance games and rehabilitative training strategies.
How does BioSway work?
The Biodex BioSway system challenges patients to shift and control their center of gravity through interactive balance games and rehabilitative training strategies.
To use the BioSway to enhance postural stability, you stand on a small, lightweight instrumented platform, facing a touchscreen. Through sensory integration, various interactive training modes, and balance games, your body will retrain itself to walk properly, improve balance, and reduce your risk of falling.
BioSway physical therapy can benefit patients with:
- A high risk of falling
- Vestibular diagnoses
- Post-trauma
- Ligament sprains
- Impaired neuromuscular control
- Parkinson’s
- Stroke
- Post-concussion recovery
- Lower extremity post-surgical recovery
- And more
This type of therapy helps patients rebuild confidence, improve stability, and move more safely in their daily lives.

How the Biodex BioSway Supports Your Recovery
At Ivy Rehab, we use the Biodex BioSway as part of a personalized, outcomes-driven approach to balance recovery. This system supports our clinicians with accurate, real-time data, making it easier to design effective therapy plans and track progress over time.
Clinical applications of the Biodex BioSway include:
- Balance assessment and training for people of all ages, including older adults.
- Fall prevention and fall risk screening in at-risk patients.
- Vestibular rehab, post-injury, and return-to-play care.
- Support for concussion management, neurological conditions, and post-surgical recovery.
- Use of CTSIB and clinical tests for sensory integration to identify specific movement patterns or strategies.
Why it works for your care:
- Uses objective balance test results and normative data, including healthy population references.
- Offers testing for interactive training modes or standardized testing environments.
- Helps clinicians track progress and provide clear test results.
- Enables objective documentation, including printed color reports ideal for care plans and insurance reimbursement.
- Designed for flexibility, conveniently portable within a facility or at community-based health fairs or school settings.
Together, these clinical applications and built-in capabilities allow your therapist to create a more precise, personalized plan that supports steady progress and safer movement.
Advanced Technology in a Compact, Portable Design
The Biodex BioSway combines science and simplicity in one fully portable system that sets up in minutes. Whether you’re working one-on-one with a therapist or being assessed at a community event, this device delivers real-time feedback to improve your balance and movement confidence.
Key technology features include:
- A lightweight instrumented platform that sets up in minutes to provide static force testing.
- Engaging interactive training modes, biofeedback, and vibrotactile cues.
- Enhances sensory integration of balance, proprioception, and motor control.
- Monitors postural sway, specific movement patterns, and progress through force testing for interactive training.
- Includes display stands, with a tabletop option and the ability to wall mount.
- Display can attach to compatible mounts, large displays, and accommodate external keyboard use.
- Comes with a travel bag or hard-shell case that provides added protection during transport to community-based health fairs.
- Supports data transfer and software upgrades for up-to-date functionality.
The portable BioSway system is also used in school settings for athletics, rehabilitation clinics, and facilities for in-resident care, thanks to its compact design and multipurpose connectivity, which enable connection to larger monitors.
Whether you’re recovering, training, or working toward better stability, the Biodex BioSway helps Ivy Rehab deliver high-quality care with advanced tools that fit into your life.
These benefits can be experienced through balance testing, static force testing, a postural sway merits investigation, or vestibular training.
If you’re looking for support with improving concussion management, balance deficiencies, motor control, postural sway, or specific movement patterns, schedule your balance assessment today. Contact an Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy location near you to learn more about the BioSway system.
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