Professor Kimitaka Nakazawa, a specialist in neurorehabilitation, first had the opportunity to study the brain activity of a Paralympic gold medalist in January 2016, when he visited a university pool in the United States as part of an NHK television program called “Chojin-tachi no Paralympic” [The superhuman Paralympians]. He was struck by what he could...
KESSLER FOUNDATION IMAGE: RESEARCHERS COMPLETED A MULTI-CENTER, SINGLE-ARM TRIAL STUDY OF THE RESTORE FOR GAIT TRAINING OF INDIVIDUALS UNDERGOING POST-STROKE REHABILITATION. East Hanover, NJ. September 9, 2020. A team of U.S. researchers published the results of a multi-center, single-arm trial of the ReWalk ReStore™ for gait training in individuals undergoing post-stroke rehabilitation. They found the...
A person who has a stroke that causes vision loss is often told there is nothing she can do to improve or regain the vision she has lost. New research from the University of Rochester, published in the journal Brain, may offer hope to stroke patients in regaining vision. The Rochester team found that survivors...
by Laura Bailey, University of Michigan People with anterior cruciate ligament injuries can lose up to 40% of the muscle strength in the affected leg––with muscle atrophy remaining a big problem even after ACL reconstruction and physical therapy. Now, a new University of Michigan study challenges conventional wisdom about which exercises are most beneficial during...
A group of researchers from the Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) in Columbus, Ohio has developed a new brain-computer interface which restores both movement and sense of touch to the limbs of patients with spinal cord injuries (SCIs). Even though such technology has already been tested in the past, what makes the new system remarkable is...
In the past few years, Comcast, a television company, has been putting some serious effort into making its content more accessible to people with disabilities. It recently released its X1 eye control offering that lets users change channels, search for shows, schedule recordings of shows, and more by simply looking at specific areas of the screen. The...
by Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University Credit: jeanbaptisteparis. Shared under a Creative Commons license. Researchers have created a virtual reality clinic to make it easier for stroke survivors to attend their physical and occupational therapy sessions. Results from a proof-of-concept study suggest that the technology—and the social connection it facilitates—are effective at encouraging therapy participation. “Physical and occupational...
Researchers propose new approach to post-stroke rehabilitation NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS The existing approach to brain stimulation for rehabilitation after a stroke does not take into account the diversity of lesions and the individual characteristics of patients’ brains. This was the conclusion made by researchers of the Higher School of Economics (HSE University)...
by Adam Pope, University of Alabama at Birmingham New research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicinefrom the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows that video telehealth pulmonary rehabilitation interventions reduce 30-day all-cause readmission rates following hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation. COPD includes a group of diseases, like emphysema and chronic bronchitis, that cause airflow obstruction and breathing-related problems....
Patients who receive more physical therapy are less likely to be readmitted to a hospital within a month, yet the amount of care made available to Medicare patients varies widely BROWN UNIVERSITY PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Medicare- covered stroke patients receive vastly different amounts of physical and occupational therapy during hospital stays despite evidence that such care is strongly associated with positive...
