Product Description
The first entry in the TherAlign product line is the exciting new Dragonfly™ TLSO. The Dragonfly TLSO allows an orthotist or other qualified clinician to:
- Support the client’s spine and trunk with a lightweight, rigid panel – while training the neuromotor system into more functional alignment with the garment subsystem.
- Custom-form a spinal support anchored on the pelvis to promote superior torso stability throughout the core.
- Provide abdominal support and intracavitary pressure without restricting respiration or requiring a complicated tightening device.
- Facilitate long-term neuromotor improvements that address the causes of postural and spinal issues – with a live-in orthotic solution that does much more than simply immobilize the spine.
- Waterless warm-and-form fitting process creates a custom-fit TLSO in 25 minutes or less.
- Unique double-wing design delivers superior stability, comfort, and torso support with minimum weight and bulk.
- Quick-release tabs instantly anchor the Anterior Apron to the Dragonfly and garment subsystem, securing the device snugly on the body.
- Hook-sensitive TLSO exterior offers infinite attachment options for optimizing the system.
Clients – when fitted with the Dragonfly TLSO, you can:
- Wear your customized postural support discreetly, under loose clothing. Most adult models weigh one pound or less, and pediatric sizes weigh only a few ounces.
- Build trunk stability from the pelvis up – align and strengthen your entire core without excessive abdominal constriction.
- Enjoy custom-fit comfort that allows easy, supported movement and normal respiration.
- TherAlign Dragonfly™ TLSO delivers what your clients need to address flexible postural deficits and spinal strength issues with comfort and discretion – key elements to compliance!
Spinal Support and Dynamic Neuromotor Training – combined in one solution!
The Dragonfly TLSO consists of a heat-moldable spinal support component and a garment subsystem for the upper and lower torso –creating a one-of-a-kind solution for a wide range of client issues:
If your client has one or more of these indications …
- Truncal hypotonia
- Forward head
- Flexible kyphosis
- Flexible lordosis
- Excessive pelvic tilt
- Trunk muscle weakness
- Post-laminectomy flexible kyphosis
- Osteoporosis
- Shoulder protraction or scapular winging that improves with spinal extension
- Mild, functional scoliosis that can be corrected without force
The Dragonfly TLSO can:
- Improve postural alignment for functional limb use
- Limit excess trunk movement in the sagittal and frontal planes
- Shorten and retrain trunk extensor muscles
- Shorten and retrain abdominal muscles
- Improve respiratory capacity by reducing flexible kyphosis
- Create vertical compression through the vertebral bodies to optimize bone growth and density
- Reduce pressure on lumbar intervertebral disks via intracavitary pressure applied by the Anterior Apron
