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Coapt Re-Engineers And Upgrades Control System For Prosthetic Arms
The world's preeminent control system for advanced bionic limbs just got even smarter. Coapt, LLC – provider of the premier commercially available, intuitive bionic limb contr...Full Article
New Tech-Enabled Rehab Program Designed To Improve Recovery Experience for People Living With Dementia
Brookdale Senior Living is taking a new approach to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation for people living with Alzheimer's and other dementias. A first of its kind in...Full Article
First Digital Health Osteoarthritis Wearable Glove System Starts Pre-launch Pilot Trial Series & Medical Tests
QUANTIC NANOTECH, a product division of Spanish DEMAC S.A. group who presented the first home wearable osteoarthritis treatment glove system "QNANO GLOVE" during the last CES...
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Gary And Mary West Pace® Program Of All-Inclusive Care For The Elderly To Help Seniors Successfully Age At Home Opens In North County San Diego
PACE®, which stands for Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly, has come to north San Diego County with the official ribbon-cutting today of the nonprofit Gary and Mary...Full Article
Celebrate National Physical Therapy Month!
October is National Physical Therapy Month (NPTM), an opportunity to raise awareness of the benefits of physical therapy. Get involved and urge people to choose physical ther...Full Article
SMARTfit® Shows Promising Results In Slowing Age-Related Cognitive Decline
In its February 2019 issue, a Time magazine article described the current aging trajectory of baby boomers as the "growing American crisis." With 10,000 Americans retiring eve...Full Article
Nerve-Stimulating Leg Prosthesis Improves Movement And Functionality In Amputees
A research team has created a leg prosthesis for lower leg amputees that incorporates advanced neural stimulation, allowing it to recreate sensations of touch in the knee and ...Full Article
Amputees Merge With Their Bionic Leg
Scientists have helped three amputees merge with their bionic prosthetic legs as they climb over various obstacles without having to look. The amputees report using and feelin...Full Article
American Association Of Nurse Anesthetists Recognized For Innovative I AM ME Campaign
The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) was recently named a winner of Ragan’s Health Care PR and Marketing Awards in the Social Media Campaign category for its ...Full Article
New Tech-Enabled Rehab Program Designed To Improve Recovery Experience For People Living With Dementia
Brookdale Senior Living is taking a new approach to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation for people living with Alzheimer's and other dementias. A first of its kind in...Full Article
Exercise Could Slow Withering Effects Of Alzheimer’s
Exercising several times a week may delay brain deterioration in people at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study that scientists say merits further research ...Full Article
Stroke Patients Relearning How To Walk With Peculiar Shoe
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 th...Full Article
Exercising At Home Has A Positive Effect On Parkinson's Patients
Even though exercise is known to be healthy, many people find it difficult to maintain an exercise program for a longer time. This applies even more to people with a chronic i...Full Article
Exercising While Restricting Calories Could Be Bad For Bone Health
A new study published today in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research shows how bones in mammals are negatively impacted by calorie restriction, and particularly by the comb...Full Article
Multicomponent Home-Based Treatments Improve Mobility In Older Adults After Hip Fracture
Each year more than 260,000 older Americans are hospitalized for hip fractures, a debilitating injury that can severely and permanently impact mobility. Researchers at the Uni...Full Article
Feeling Legs Again Improves Amputees' Health
While walking, people with intact legs feel when they move their knee or when their feet touch the ground. The nervous system constantly draws on sensory feedback of this sort...Full Article
New App Offers Faster And Easier Assessment For Multiple Sclerosis App Review
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report they have developed and validated a tablet-based app that offers a faster, easier and more accurate way for health care providers who...Full Article
Patients In Persistent Comas Or Vegetative States Show Signs Of Improved Wakefulness Because Of The Phoenix Project
Ravon Ortiz and Wardell Starling are the latest patients to emerge from vegetative states in Nexus Health Systems' program, The Phoenix Project. Konswella Felps explained tha...Full Article
Omron Healthcare Introduces Total Power + Heat TENS Device, Latest Addition To Its Drug-Free Pain Relief Product Line
Omron Healthcare, Inc., a global leader in personal heart health and wellness technology, today introduced Total Power + Heat as the latest addition to its line of drug-free p...Full Article
Exercise Physiologists Help Make Patient Mobility A Reality
Exercise physiologists can play a key role in efforts to provide safe and effective early mobilization in intensive care units (ICUs), according to new research published in A...Full Article
Get A New Knee That Morning, Go Home That Afternoon
You can now get a total knee replacement in the morning at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and be home that afternoon. UAB’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery has begu...Full Article
Electronic Glove Offers 'Humanlike' Features For Prosthetic Hand Users
People with hand amputations experience difficult daily life challenges, often leading to lifelong use of a prosthetic hands and services. An electronic glove, or e-glove, de...Full Article
Girl Goes From Not Walking To 5K With Help Of Mercy Therapist
When 9-year-old Pressley Atkins arrived at Mercy, she had not walked without crutches in six months. Her mother feared Pressley would never walk – or walk normally – again. Pr...Full Article
'Mental Singing' May Improve Walking In People With Parkinson Disease
Mental singing – "singing" a rhythmic song in your head – can improve measures of walking ability not only in people with Parkinson disease (PD), but also in healthy older adu...Full Article
New Insights: Improving Function, Independence And Quality Of Life Of Individuals With Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common movement disorders in children. A growing number of caregivers worldwide are caring for children, adolescents and adults with chi...Full Article
