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Physical Therapy Headlines
Using Brain Computer Interface, Paralysed Patients Control Robotic Arms To Reach And Grasp
On April 12, 2011, nearly fifteen years after she became paralyzed and unable to speak, a woman controlled a robotic arm by thinking about moving her arm and hand to lift a bottle of coffee to her mouth and take a drink...
Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Idiopathic Toe Walking And Rotator Cuff Surgery Highlighted In May JAAOS
Treatments for Idiopathic Toe Walking Based on Child's Age and Severity of Gait Abnormality Most children develop a normal walking pattern, or gait, by age 2. And while some toe walking - where a child primarily walks on the front of the foot or toes, never touching the heel to the ground - is common, persistent toe walking beyond age 2 may indicate a neurological disorder...
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Quadriplegic Patient Has Some Hand Function Restored By Surgeons
Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored some hand function in a quadriplegic patient with a spinal cord injury at the C7 vertebra, the lowest bone in the neck. Instead of operating on the spine itself, the surgeons rerouted working nerves in the upper arms. These nerves still "talk" to the brain because they attach to the spine above the injury...
Wed, 16 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Reaching Out To Patients With Cerebral Palsy
With the aid of multiple force sensors and a digital dinosaur, a team of Rice University seniors known as Helping Hands hopes to restore strength and flexibility to the hands and wrists of children with cerebral palsy. "These kids have a real problem with their hands," said Jenna Desmarais, a senior at Rice majoring in mechanical engineering...
Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Designing Better Prosthetic Limbs
People walking normally, women tottering in high heels and ostriches strutting all exert the same forces on the ground despite very differently-shaped feet, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council...
Thu, 10 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
The Positive Effects Of Heart Rehabilitation Programs
Research conducted at the University of Granada has demonstrated the efficiency of a heart rehabilitation program aimed at patients suffering from heart disease. The authors of this study affirm that it is essential that heart rehabilitation programs aimed at cardiac patients are established...
Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Wheelchair Breakdowns Becoming More Common, Reports AJPM&R
Wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI) report very high rates of wheelchair breakdowns - and the problem is getting worse, suggests a study in American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R), the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, AJPM&R is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Fri, 04 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Treatment Of Lower Back Pain Could Be Improved By Adding Complementary And Alternative Medical Therapy
Nearly 8 of 10 Americans will experience lower back pain at some time in their lives. Persistent low back pain is a common, incapacitating, costly, and a difficult to treat condition. Many patients might benefit significantly from an individualized, multidisciplinary, team-based model of care that includes access to licensed complementary care practitioners (e.g...
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
New Approach Points To Potential Treatment For Stroke
Stanford University School of Medicine neuroscientists have demonstrated, in a study published online in Stroke, that a compound mimicking a key activity of a hefty, brain-based protein is capable of increasing the generation of new nerve cells, or neurons, in the brains of mice that have had strokes. The mice also exhibited a speedier recovery of their athletic ability...
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Home Treatment For Vertigo: 2 Exercises Assessed
A CU School of Medicine researcher who suffers from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and had to "fix it" before she could go to work one day was using a maneuver to treat herself that only made her sicker. "So I sat down and thought about it and figured out an alternate way to do it. Then I fixed myself and went in to work" and discovered a new treatment for this type of vertigo...
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Tai Chi Wheelchair Brings Mobility, Self-Esteem, Better Health To Practitioners
An innovative 13-postures Tai Chi designed for wheelchair users is described in the current issue of Technology and Innovation- Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors®...
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Good Intentions Bring Mixed Results For Haiti's Disabled People
A new evaluation by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine of the physical rehabilitation response after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, finds that many hands didn't always make light work. Thousands of people became disabled during and after the 2010 earthquake, and physical rehabilitation interventions were crucial to the emergency response...
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Innovative Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Model
A new supplement in the journal Cancer outlines an innovative model to address a wide range of physical issues faced by women with breast cancer and offers hope for improved function and full participation in life activities for patients through rehabilitation and exercise...
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Survivors Of Breast Cancer Suffer Treatment-Related Side Effects Long After Completing Care
More than 60 percent of breast cancer survivors report at least one treatment-related complication even six years after their diagnosis, according to a new study led by a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Rehospitalization Among Post-Acute Stroke Patients: Findings Pave Way To Reduce Readmittance, A New Requirement Of The Affordable Care Act
Stroke patients receiving in-patient rehabilitation are more likely to land back in the hospital within three months if they are functioning poorly, show signs of depression and lack social support according to researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston. Hospital readmission for older adults within 30 days of discharge costs Medicare roughly $18 billion annually...
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Stroke Rehab And More: Stimulating The Brain To Improve Speech, Memory, Numerical Abilities
One of the most frustrating challenges for some stroke patients can be the inability to find and speak words even if they know what they want to say. Speech therapy is laborious and can take months. New research is seeking to cut that time significantly, with the help of non-invasive brain stimulation...
Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Ancestor Lucy Lived With Tree-Climbing Cousins
Researchers say a 3.4 million-year-old fossilized foot found in Ethiopia did not belong to a member of Australopithecus afarensis, the hominin species of our early upright-walking ancestor "Lucy", but to a tree-climbing hominin cousin with whom she and her relatives co-existed. They write about how they came to this conclusion in the 29 March online issue of Nature...
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Review Of Stroke Rehabilitation And Recovery: Working Group Sets Priorities For Future Research
In 2011, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) convened the Stroke Progress Review Group (SPRG) to conduct a final 10-year review of the state of stroke research. The goal is to set priorities and shape future NINDS programs and policies. While SPRG found much available data for maximizing stroke rehabilitation effects, translation to clinical practice is inadequate...
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
After Meniscus Surgery, A Structured, Independent Exercise Regimen Can Reduce The Need For Therapy
Below is a news summary of an orthopaedic research study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS), as well as the issues' full Table of Contents. A Structured, Independent Exercise Regimen Can Reduce the Need for Therapy Following Meniscus Surgery The treatment of meniscus tears in injured workers is associated with less favorable outcomes and higher utilization of clinical services...
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Art Improves Stroke Survivors' Quality Of Life
Stroke survivors who like art have a significantly higher quality of life than those who do not, according to new research. Patients who appreciated music, painting and theatre recovered better from their stroke than patients who did not. The research was presented at the 12th Annual Spring Meeting on Cardiovascular Nursing, in Copenhagen, Denmark...
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Cultural Differences May Impact Neurologic And Psychiatric Rehabilitation Of Spanish Speakers
The number of people with neurological and psychiatric disorders in Spanish-speaking countries has increased over the past two decades. The February issue of NeuroRehabilitation assesses important factors that should be considered in rehabilitating Spanish-speaking individuals suffering from these disorders...
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Childhood Cancer Linked To Developmental Delays In Milestones
Infants and toddlers who have been treated for cancer tend to reach certain developmental milestones later than do their healthy peers, say researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Italy. The findings show that delays may occur early in the course of treatment and suggest that young children with cancer might benefit from such early interventions as physical or language therapy...
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Brain Flexibility Gives Hope For Natural-Feeling Neuroprosthetics
Opening the door to the development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices to help people with spinal cord injuries, amputations and other impairments, neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Portugal have demonstrated that the brain is more flexible and trainable than previously thought...
Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Coordination Between The Eyes And Arms Has Implications For Rehabilitation, Prosthetics
We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study, which appears in the journal Neuron, points to a mechanism in the brain that allows for this coordination and may have implications for rehabilitation and prosthetics...
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Brain Performance In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Improved By Cognitive Rehabilitation
In a new study published in the March issue of Radiology, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) shows that cognitive rehabilitation changes brain function and improves cognitive performance in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS)...
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
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