Treax Pads

The system is composed of a number of differently coloured pads that respond to touch. It’s easy for the therapist or user to create individualized exercises for balance, coordination and weight-bearing. Treax Pads have four basic functions:  the force indication scale, random light signals, reaction and balancefunction. 

Treax Pads is a highly flexible rehabilitation system that enables the therapist to design training activities to fit the functionality level and training needs of each user. The system can be expanded with more pads as the user’s skills improve. Increasing the number of pads can make exercises into social games, where several users are active. The system can be used on the floor or be mounted on the wall with the accessory wall mounting board.

With the Large set, it is possible to compose setups for social game play. As the field of pads that can be created is larger it can accommodate two users at a time. This adds a social aspect to the exercise and further challenges planning skills and executive functions. The users now have to pass each other and they can even strategically block one another’s route. The example shows two users responding to each other’s random light signals, trying to reach the other’s side first.

As the TREAX Pads come in three different colors, the random light signal corresponds to these three colors. When the user receives a light signal he/she should navigate to a pad of that specific color. Activating the next pad will then again provide a random color light signal, directing the user further. Unlike the force indication scale, this function does not react to the amount of force applied to it, but only to activation as such. Therefore, exercises using this mode have less focus on applied force or weight and more focus on cognitive challenges such as reaction time, concentration and visuo-motor coordination

The balance mode is used to exercise postural control, balance, plantar/dorsiflexion etc. The exercises may be adjusted according to the user’s skills. They could, for example, be used to exercise 1-leg stand or using two pads simultaneously by one foot on each. If the pads are placed with appropriate distance from each other as a track, the balance function can be used as a simple “gait analysis” to visualize how the force is distributed on the feet through the gait cycle.