by Mohammed Asheruddin, Indian Institute of Science Soft wearable glove for stroke rehabilitation. Credit: Mesoscopic Lab, Department of Physics, IISc Stroke is India’s third leading cause of death and the sixth leading cause of disability. Physiotherapy is one of the few treatments available for rehabilitating stroke victims and patients with physical injuries. However, physiotherapy can take days to months...
By Dmitry Dorofeev, B.Sc Reviewed by Sophia Coveney What is virtual reality? Virtual reality is an environment generated with the help of animated computer programs and displayed on the screen – an external space that is similar to a real one. Although it has similar properties to film and television, virtual reality has some distinctive...
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IMAGE: PATIENT VISITING A REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGIST. CREDIT: JACOB DWYER, MICHIGAN MEDICINE After a month-long hospitalization from COVID-19, a once-independent older adult struggles to complete daily tasks. They can’t make breakfast without getting fatigued or focus on reading the paper. They’ve been in physical therapy for months and are not...
by Naomi Cocks, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Imagine not wanting to leave your house because of fear you would drool. That’s the choice many people with Parkinson’s disease confront every day. Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative condition in Australia after dementia. It’s estimated around 70,000 Australians live with it and one of...
by La Trobe University Dr Amy Dennett conducts a telehealth rehabilitation appointment. Credit: La Trobe University La Trobe University research has found delivering cancer patients’ rehabilitation clinics by telehealth is safe, effective and removes barriers to participation, such as fatigue, travel and parking costs. Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research—Cancer, the study found 88...
JANUARY 7, 2022 by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Credit: TNE / EPFL After lying for a while in a way that puts pressure on a nerve in your arm, you do not feel the arm anymore, you cannot perceive its location and size, and it feels like it does not belong to your own body....
BMJ Exercise helps women with arm and shoulder problems after breast cancer surgery Early post-operative exercise appears to help women recover better than receiving standard care only, study shows Women who exercise shortly after having non-reconstructive breast cancer surgery appear to regain better shoulder and arm mobility and experience less pain than those who receive...
Exoskeleton devices work, researchers say, for a variety of uses such as speeding up our walking or making running easier. Yet they don’t know what exactly makes exoskeletons effective. What is the benefit of customization, for example? And how much does simply getting used to the exoskeleton matter? “People are amazing at learning new tasks,”...
by Medical University of South Carolina Researchers have found that the extra vibratory stimulus increases activity in the brain during grip tasks, which in turn improves a patient’s hand function after therapy has concluded. Credit: MUSC Health Every 40 seconds someone in the U.S. experiences a stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
CONN HASTINGS EXCLUSIVE, NEUROLOGY, REHAB Evolution Devices, a company based in California, created a functional electrical stimulation device to assist people with foot drop to walk more freely. Foot drop is caused by muscle weakness/paralysis, and those affected struggle to lift the front part of their foot, which makes walking difficult and can lead to falls. The product...
