Pain and neuromodulation: What ’s all the “buzz” about?
Chronic pain is an enigma for both pain doctors and their patients: difficult to understand (as everyone’s pain is different), challenging to treat effectively, and frustrating to live with. Desperate patients sometimes turn to drastic and irreversible surgical procedures, like amputating nerves to relieve pain, and unfortunately even those procedures may fail to provide the hoped-for results. Fortunately there have been great strides in research related to pain perception and our nervous system’s reaction to various pain treatments, and we’ve been able to develop novel devices that provide many people with much-need...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shafik Boyaji, MD Tags: Back Pain Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Smart Jumpsuit Tracks Infant Movements to Spot Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have developed a smart jumpsuit for children as young as five months, that tracks body movement in great detail. The system may allow clinicians to identify neurodevelopmental disorders in children more easily, potentially allowing for earlier intervention and support for such children.
At present, assessing children for the presence of certain neurodevelopmental disorders, such as cerebral palsy, involves a clinician or physiotherapist closely watching a child’s movements. This typically occurs at a clinic, but kids’ movements may be different to those they produce at h...
Source: Medgadget - February 17, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Informatics Neurology Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Easy Goals Even Old Coots Can Achieve
Sometimes the best goals are soft and squishy like an eggnog filled belly.It’s either very late or very early, depending on your point of view. Either way, I’m sitting here thinking deep, New Year’s-like thoughts. In the other room sleeps a friend who almost wasn’t my friend anymore until we patched things last week. Upstairs sleeps my third daughter whose heart is in need of mending as her marriage comes to an end. Hanging out with dad and his friend on New Year’s Eve was either a low point for her or just exactly what she needed.My thoughts are a warm blend of nostalgia and regret with a sub...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Family Goodreads Journaling Source Type: blogs
Twin Cities facility for special needs strength and fitness training
(I copiedthis over from my shares feed as it fits better here).My #1 is doing their special Olympics strength training atBuilt on Bravery, located at the Mendota Height MN Lions United Fitness Center (map):Lions United is a new kind of training center, designed specifically to prepare people with disabilities for exceptional performance in individual competitions, team sports and life, especially people with autism, down syndrome and cerebral palsy. We ’re dedicated to Special Olympics’ Project UNIFY and Unified Sports®, which means we bring people of all abilities together to strengthen individuals, relatio...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - November 23, 2019 Category: Disability Tags: athletics cognitive impairment exercise Explosive Child health Twin Cities Source Type: blogs
PECASE Honoree Elizabeth Nance Highlights the Importance of Collaboration in Nanotechnology
A network of capillaries supplies brain cells with nutrients. Tight seals in their walls keep blood toxins—and many beneficial drugs—out of the brain. Credit: Dan Ferber, PLOS Biol 2007 Jun; (5)6:E169. CC by 2.5 .
The blood-brain barrier—the ultra-tight seal in the walls of the brain’s capillaries—is an important part of the body’s defense system. It keeps invaders and other toxins from entering the human brain by screening out dangerous molecules. But the intricate workings of this extremely effective barrier also make it challenging to design therapeutics that would help us. And as it turns out, ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 20, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Diseases Precision Medicine Systems Biology Training Source Type: blogs
Formlabs Commits to Dental Industry Offerings with Launch of Formlabs Dental and Form 3B Printer
According to market research firm Key Group, Formlabs is the most installed 3D printer for all sizes of dental labs. The global company currently provides professional 3D printing hardware and digital fabrication services across a range of industries from healthcare, including dental and audiology, to entertainment and education.
Doubling down on its current dental offerings, last week Formlabs announced the launch of Formlabs Dental. The new business unit, comprised of a team of dental professionals, will serve the dental vertical with Formlabs’ new Form 3B printer and platform.
The Form 3B is able to pri...
Source: Medgadget - November 19, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Dentistry Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Think your child might have a disability or developmental delay? Take these steps
While we all want our children not to have any problems at all, the reality is that life doesn’t always work that way. Many children suffer from some sort of problem, whether it’s something minor and often temporary, like a speech delay, or something more difficult and permanent, like cerebral palsy or autism.
Children with problems or disabilities are no less wonderful and deserving than children without. The key to getting them on the right path for the best life possible is identifying those problems and getting help — as early as possible. That’s why it’s important to speak up early. Sometimes there isn’t a...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Part 5 - Why Do We Lump the Non-Cancer Pain Syndromes Together?
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.This is the 5th post in a series about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and a Hand-Crafted Graph.Part 2 – We Were Wrong 20 years Ago, Our Current Response to the Opioid Crisis is Wrong, But We Should Still Be Helping Most of our Long-Term Patients Reduce Their Opioid DosesPart 3 – Opioids Have Ceiling Effects, High-Doses are Rarely Therapeutic, and Another Hand-Cr...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 6, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: opioid pain rosielle The profession Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Families Impacted by Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia does not just affect the person with schizophrenia, but their families, also. This episode of Inside Schizophrenia explores the family relationships impacted by schizophrenia, both immediate and extended.
Two guests join us. The first is Chrisa Hickey, who is the mother of an adult son with schizophrenia and started an online site for parents of children who have a severe mental illness. The other guest, interviewed by co-host Gabe Howard, is Janel Star Withers, mother of host Rachel Star Withers. Janel shares her experiences with raising a schizophrenic daughter.
Host Rachel Star Withers, a diagnosed...
Source: World of Psychology - August 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Children and Teens Family Inside Schizophrenia Parenting Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia Family Mental Health family mental illness Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis life with schizophrenia Mental Disorder Mental illness and Source Type: blogs
Families Impacted by Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia does not just affect the person with schizophrenia, but their families, also. This episode of Inside Schizophrenia explores the family relationships impacted by schizophrenia, both immediate and extended.
Two guests join us. The first is Chrisa Hickey, who is the mother of an adult son with schizophrenia and started an online site for parents of children who have a severe mental illness. The other guest, interviewed by co-host Gabe Howard, is Janel Star Withers, mother of host Rachel Star Withers. Janel shares her experiences with raising a schizophrenic daughter.
Host Rachel Star Withers, a diagno...
Source: World of Psychology - August 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Children and Teens Family General Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia Family Mental Health family mental illness Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis life with schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Cord Blood Stem Cells Help Young Boy with Tetra Spastic Cerebral Palsy
Tomas’s mom developed pre-eclampsia, a hypertension disorder sometimes developed during pregnancy which can cause serious health risks for both mom and baby, during her fifth month of pregnancy. This high blood pressure pregnancy complication affects kidney and liver function and when left untreated, can lead to blood clotting failure, fluid buildup in the lungs, seizures and in severe cases, death. With this diagnosis, Tomas’s mom was put on immediate bed rest to try and relieve her pre-eclampsia symptoms.
Just when she was feeling some relief, Tomas’s mom received the unfortunate news that her baby’s heartrate ha...
Source: Cord Blood News - July 30, 2019 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: babies Cord Blood medical research pregnancy stem cells Source Type: blogs
Magnum, P.I.
An 11-year-old boy with cerebral palsy presented to the emergency department unresponsive. His mother said the child was in his normal state earlier that morning, but was blue and unresponsive when she tried to wake him from his morning nap. A home pulse oximeter reported an oxygen level of 55%.The mother placed the child on oxygen and called 911. He was still unresponsive on arrival, and his physical examination demonstrated flaccid paralysis and a GCS score of 3 with fixed dilated pupils. He was tachycardic with shallow respirations. His initial vital signs were a temperature of 36.9°C, a heart rate of 136 bpm, a res...
Source: The Tox Cave - June 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Why IVF babies have more problems
A lot of people worry that IVF babies are abnormal as compared to babies made in the bedroom . This is often based on press reports which say that IVF increases the risk of babies having medical problems . This is true , but we need to understand why !This increased risk is applicable only when IVF gives rise to a multiple pregnancy . It's well known that multiple pregnancies increase the risk of prematurity, and preterm babies are at a much higher risk of a whole host of medical problems, such as retinopathy of prematurity, cerebral palsy or mental retardation.This clearly means that it's not the IVF which increases the r...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - March 30, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Why IVF babies are at increased risk as compared to normal pregnancies
A lot of people worry that IVF babies are abnormal as compared to babies made in the bedroom . This is often based on press reports which say that IVF increases the risk of babies having medical problems . This is true , but we need to understand why !This increased risk is applicable only when IVF gives rise to a multiple pregnancy . It's well known that multiple pregnancies increase the risk of prematurity, and preterm babies are at a much higher risk of a whole host of medical problems, such as retinopathy of prematurity, cerebral palsy or mental retardation. This clearly means that it's not the IVF which increases...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - March 16, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
