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...
JANUARY 18, 2022 by Michael Merschel Two years into the pandemic, researchers have learned a lot about how COVID-19 affects people with heart disease and stroke survivors. But like the coronavirus itself, what everyone needs to know keeps evolving. “You can’t assume that what was true three months ago is true now,” said Dr. James...
by Dan Bernardi, Syracuse University A patient receiving transcranial direct current stimulation in the Aphasia Lab. Credit: Syracuse University Researchers in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) is testing a cutting-edge method of electrical brain stimulation to help stroke patients suffering from a language disorder called aphasia. The National Institutes of Health-funded study, led...
by Asociacion RUVID Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study by the Faculty of Physiotherapy of the University of Valencia (UV), in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Madrid, has shown that a physiotherapy program that uses the Nintendo Wii console improves the functionality, balance, and daily activities of patients who have suffered a cerebrovascular accident or...
by Anglia Ruskin University New research has found that music therapy sessions have a positive effect on the neurorehabilitation of acute stroke patients, as well as their mood. The study—the first large-scale investigation into the feasibility of delivering these exercises—was led by Dr. Alex Street, of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), and was carried out on...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF INNOVATION) TAMPA, Fla. (September 17, 2019)- A therapeutic shoe engineered to improve stroke recovery is proving successful and expected to hit the market by the end of the year. Clinical trials have been completed on the U.S. patented and licensed iStride Device, formerly the Gait Enhancing Mobile Shoe (GEMS), with...
By SHARON BEGLEY @sxbegle APRIL 24, 2019 Speaking one’s mind” is getting literal: A device that detects electrical signals in the brain’s speech-producing regions created synthetic speech good enough for listeners to mostly understand complex sentences, University of California, San Francisco, scientists reported on Wednesday. Listeners missed about 30 percent of the words in the synthetic speech,...
by Jennifer Rainey Marquez, Georgia State University Neuroscientist and physical therapist Andrew Butler, professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and associate dean for research at the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing & Health Professions, discusses how he is mobilizing the healing power of brain plasticity. Your work is grounded in the idea of neuroplasticity....
