Rehabilitation
Physical Therapists Unite To Support The Uninsured - The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is urging residents across the country to contact their local elected officials and members of the media to draw attention to the problem of the nation’s uninsured during “Cover the Uninsured Week,” March 14-20…
Natural And Artificial Sheaths Used To Mend Traumatic Bone Loss - A husband and wife research team has found a way to use the sleeve-like cover on bone to heal serious bone injuries faster and more simply than current methods. And they’ve developed an artificial sleeve that spurs fast healing when a car wreck, bomb blast or disease leaves too little cover…
Carnegie Mellon Initiative To Commercialize Quality Of Life Technologies Boosted By NSF Grant - An already promising initiative to assist start-up firms that commercialize technologies associated with the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is now expanding thanks to a three-year, $1.5 million Innovation Award from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers…
Immigrants With Disabilities More Frequently Employed Than US-Born Persons With Disabilities - Currently, foreign-born people make up approximately 13 percent of the total U.S. population. As the immigrant population grows, understanding its disability status and employment characteristics becomes increasingly important…
New Survey Shows Urgent Need For Better Access To Post-hospital Physiotherapy For Stroke Patients, UK - A fifth of stroke survivors questioned in England for a recent survey didn’t receive any post-hospital physiotherapy on the NHS, meaning they either had to pay for private treatment or go without any. The results also showed that almost three quarters of physiotherapists surveyed in the UK believe they aren’t able to deliver the best outcomes for stroke patients…
Shoulder Function Not Fully Restored After Surgery: Henry Ford Hospital Study - Shoulder motion after rotator cuff surgery remains significantly different when compared to the patient’s opposite shoulder, according to Henry Ford Hospital researchers…
APTA Learning Center Launches Partnership With Section On Geriatricts - The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has partnered with its Section on Geriatrics to publish six continuing education courses to the APTA Learning Center. This union reflects the first in a series of planned partnerships with APTA sections and chapters to provide quality, evidenced-based continuing education and professional development to members and the profession…
APTA Joins With Patient And Health Care Groups On Capitol Hill In Calling For Long-Term Solution To Therapy Cap - The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) joined with more than forty patient advocacy groups and health care organizations today to thank Congress for temporarily reinstating the therapy cap exceptions process and urge for a long-term solution to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries can continue receiving necessary rehabilitative services…
Reconstruction Of 3-D Hand Movement Using Brain Signals Suggests Future Portable Prosthetic Devices For The Movement-Impaired - Researchers have successfully reconstructed 3-D hand motions from brain signals recorded in a non-invasive way, according to a study in the March 3 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This finding uses a technique that may open new doors for portable brain-computer interface systems…
Stroke Survivors Can Improve Functioning Of Paralyzed Arm Years After Stroke - High-intensity, repetitive rehabilitation exercises can help stroke survivors significantly improve functioning in their paralyzed arm and in their quality of life even years after their disabling event, according to late-breaking science results presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2010…
Reid Upset After Republicans Block COBRA Benefits Extension Request - Roll Call: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized Republicans Wednesday after the GOP denied “a unanimous consent request to pass an extension of unemployment insurance and COBRA health care benefits, a move he warned would leave ‘out-of-work Americans vulnerable to losing this valuable safety net’” (Brady, 2/24)…
Wii™ Video Games May Help Stroke Patients Improve Motor Function - Virtual reality game technology using Wii™ may help recovering stroke patients improve their motor function, according to research presented as a late breaking poster at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2010. The study found the virtual reality gaming system was safe and feasible strategy to improve motor function after stroke…
Study Of Potential Rehab Following ‘Mini Stroke’ - Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIA) are often called “mini strokes” for good reasons -- the short-term symptoms can mimic a stroke and up to 10 percent of first-time sufferers often experience full-blown strokes within as little as 90 days. Despite the well-known statistics, no post-TIA regimen exists to help prevent future strokes -- but this might be changing…
Helping Children To Walk Using Treadmill Training - Using a treadmill could help infants with prenatal complications or who were injured at birth walk earlier and better, according to a University of Michigan researcher…
Special Issue Of NeuroRehabilitation Focuses On Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injuries - IOS Press announces publication of a special issue of NeuroRehabilitation: An International Journal (NRE) devoted specifically to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HI-BI), a significant disruption of brain function due to a deficient supply of oxygen to the brain. This is the first publication to present a consolidated overview of HI-BI…
What Are Leg Cramps? What Cause Leg Cramps? - Leg cramps, also known as night leg cramps, especially calf-muscle cramps, are fairly common. Some people experience cramps in the muscles of their feet, as well as their thigh muscles. In most cases these types of cramps occur while the individual is sleeping or resting. Leg cramps are sudden, painful involuntary contractions of a leg muscle…
School Of Health Professions Health Literacy Certificate Will Be Available This Fall - The cost of low health literacy - the difference between patients’ abilities to understand health information and providers’ abilities to effectively communicate complex medical information - is $106 billion to $238 billion annually, according to Pfizer, a leading biopharmaceutical company…
Physical Therapy: A Career That Fits Your Future - For Americans looking for a rewarding career in a struggling job market and down economy, a career in physical therapy could be the perfect answer. Boasting plentiful job openings, strong job security, flexibility and a high satisfaction rating among those working in the field, a career in physical therapy has been ranked among the best jobs in America by major publications, including CNNMoney…
Brain-Controlled Cursor Doubles As A Neural Workout - Harnessing brain signals to control keyboards, robots or prosthetic devices is an active area of medical research. Now a rare peek at a human brain hooked up to a computer shows that the two can adapt to each other quickly, and possibly to the brain’s benefit. Researchers at the University of Washington looked at signals on the brain’s surface while using imagined movements to control a cursor…
States Push For Insurers To Increase Coverage - States tackle several health care policy issues focused on health insurance coverage mandates and requirements. Idaho Reporter explores efforts to mandate that insurers cover prosthetics in the state with the nation’s fewest health insurance mandates. “The Idaho Senate is looking at requiring health insurance to cover replacing and repairing prosthetic limbs and devices…
Treatment Options Available For Women’s Pelvic Health Concerns - Pelvic health concerns in women are common -- yet how the issues impact sexuality and childbearing is not often discussed, according to Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource. The February issue features an overview of pelvic health problems, risk factors, causes and treatment options…
New Journal To Be Launched By SAGE: Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation - Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation is a new bimonthly journal being launched in September 2010 by SAGE, the world’s leading independent academic and professional publisher…
G7 Forgives Haiti’s Bilateral Loans To Support Aid Effort - At a press conference on Saturday, “Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he and his G-7 colleagues would forgive bilateral loans extended to poverty-stricken Haiti, which estimates it could have lost 200,000 residents in the major earthquake that hit last month,” Dow Jones Newswires reports…
Spacial Awareness Affected By Hands - We know exactly where an object is when we say it is “within the reach of our hand.” But if we don’t have a hand, can we still see the object just where it is? Apparently not, say researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus. The space within reach of our hands -- where actions such as grasping and touching occur -- is known as the “action space…
Phone App To Improved Stroke Rehab - A UQ study will employ a unique mobile phone application to improve the “communicative fitness” and lifestyle of brain-injured patients…
