From first contact to first session — a pathway built for busy hospitals.
The most common reason effective rehabilitation technologies fail to achieve clinical adoption is not the technology — it is the implementation process. We designed our onboarding model specifically for the realities of a community hospital ISU: limited dedicated training time, competing clinical priorities, and small therapy teams.
What working with Kickstart Canada looks like.
| 1 | Discovery Call We connect with your rehab director or department lead to understand your unit's patient volume, staffing model, and current gait training approach. We answer your clinical and procurement questions directly. No obligation. |
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| 2 | On-Site Device Demonstration A Kickstart Canada representative brings a loaner unit to your facility. Your PT/OT team attends a 1-hour hands-on demonstration. Clinicians handle the device, fit it on a volunteer, and walk through clinical application scenarios. A short instructional reference video is provided for follow-up review. |
| 3 | Pilot Period Your team integrates Kickstart™ into clinical sessions with eligible stroke patients over an agreed trial period. Clinicians use the device at their clinical discretion — there are no changes to standard care protocols. We remain available to answer questions throughout. |
| 4 | Review & Decision After the pilot, we debrief with your clinical team. We walk through what worked, what questions remain, and what procurement would look like at your institution. You make the decision with full information. |
Why a 1-hour demo is enough to get started.
Most hospital rehab technologies arrive with binders, certification programs, and multi-day training requirements. Kickstart™ does not. The device is passive and mechanical — there is no software interface, no settings to configure, no patient data to manage. Clinicians who attend our 1-hour demonstration leave able to fit the device and begin supervised clinical use.
Our ongoing implementation research at Joseph Brant Hospital is directly examining whether a 1-hour demonstration constitutes sufficient onboarding for confident clinical adoption — and what additional support, if any, clinicians identify as useful. Findings from this study will directly inform our support model at future implementation sites.
We don't disappear after the sale.
• Dedicated point of contact for clinical questions
• Device maintenance and replacement support
• Access to updated clinical evidence as it is published
• Invitation to participate in ongoing implementation research, with the opportunity to contribute to the growing evidence base for community hospital stroke rehabilitation
• Connection to other hospital sites using Kickstart™ [as network grows]