Posts Tagged ‘rehabilitation’
Exercise with Wii fights fatigue after cancer
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Using a video game system to get exercise at home can help patients overcome one of cancer’s most common and cumbersome symptoms: severe, persistent fatigue. Continue…
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Society & Culture - Nov 21, 2012 13:28 - 0 Comments
To vote, injured vets need better access
GEORGIA TECH (US) — Inaccessible polling places and complicated ballot design may make voting difficult for some of the more than 50,000 men and women wounded in military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 15, 2012 13:45 - 0 Comments
After injury, virtual reality tests real-world skills
U. TORONTO (CAN) — A new virtual reality test shows promise in predicting if a cognitive impairment will keep a person from functioning in the real world. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 31, 2012 12:42 - 0 Comments
How to measure prosthetic arm training
BROWN (US) — A new measure of how well an adult amputee is able to perform everyday tasks with a prosthetic arm will help assess progress during training. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 4, 2012 11:39 - 1 Comment
Rhythmic beat may help Parkinson’s rehab
U. PITTSBURGH (US) — Walking to an audible beat may be useful in rehabilitation for people with Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders, a study shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 23, 2012 16:52 - 1 Comment
After paralysis, ‘music glove’ helps fingers feel
GEORGIA TECH (US) — A wireless, musical glove may improve sensation and motor skills for people with paralyzing spinal cord injuries. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 28, 2012 11:50 - 0 Comments
How brain choreographs eye-arm moves
NYU (US) — A mechanism in the brain appears to coordinate the timing of eye and arm movements, a finding that could be key for rehab and prosthetics. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 10, 2012 15:20 - 1 Comment
Practice, practice, practice makes muscles efficient
U. COLORADO-BOULDER (US) — Practice makes perfect, but continued practice could make you more efficient. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 18, 2012 18:20 - 0 Comments
After exercise, muscles have more stem cells
U. ILLINOIS (US) — A single bout of exercise in mice leads to an increase in the type of stem cell that aids in healing injury or disease in skeletal muscle. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 17, 2011 10:19 - 3 Comments
Paralyzed man’s mind moves prosthetic arm
U. PITTSBURGH (US) — Seven years after a motorcycle accident damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed, 30-year-old Tim Hemmes reached up to touch hands with his girlfriend in a painstaking and tender high-five. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 19, 2011 17:51 - 2 Comments
Scuba aids mind, body of paralyzed vets
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Military veterans with spinal cord injuries who took a short scuba-diving course experienced significant physical and psychological improvement, researchers say. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 26, 2011 11:57 - 1 Comment
Guilt makes women drive drunk (again)
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — Rehab programs that force female drunk drivers to face the consequences of their crime can intensify feelings of guilt and shame, leading them to drink and increasing the likelihood they will re-offend. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 4, 2011 13:25 - 0 Comments
3-D steps up to decode mobility
STANFORD (US) — Researchers are using computer-generated 3-D simulations of how humans move to improve the lives of people with limited mobility. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 5, 2010 13:04 - 0 Comments
Caregivers need to take care
NORTHWESTERN (US) — A lack of understanding and help from friends and relatives is the biggest cause of stress for people who care for loved ones after a stroke. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 20, 2010 12:10 - 0 Comments
Do wrist fractures hasten disability in women?
NORTHWESTERN (US)—Wrist fractures, the most common upper extremity fractures in older adults, may play a role in the development of disability, particularly in women, according to a new study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 3, 2010 0:29 - 1 Comment
Dementia: Improving eating skills
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—For the first time, researchers have shown that it is possible to improve the eating skills and nutritional status of older people with dementia. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 20, 2010 13:28 - 0 Comments
Exercise relieves concussion symptoms
U. BUFFALO—A controlled individualized exercise training program can bring athletes and others suffering with post-concussion syndrome (PCS) back to the playing field or to their daily activities, new research finds. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 4, 2009 11:44 - 5 Comments
Kids in jail: time out to hard time
TEXAS-AUSTIN (US)—Trying and sentencing children as young as 7 in adult courts occurs with alarming frequency and devastating results in the United States, according to a new policy report. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 11, 2009 15:58 - 1 Comment
‘Rewired’ Guitar Hero game helps amputees heal
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—What do you get when you mix Nintendo’s Wii video game system with rehabilitation therapy? “Wii-habilitation”—a combination that helps patients cope with the often excruciating pain of physical therapy. Now two engineers in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s National Security Technology Department have cranked that concept up a notch. (more…)
