Machine Learning Powered Wearable Soft Robot for Patients with Limited Hand Mobility
Researchers in South Korea have developed a wearable soft robotic device that assists patients with impaired hand mobility to grasp and release objects. The researchers devised a machine-learning algorithm to predict user intentions, which helps patients to use the device more intuitively.
By receiving input from a camera mounted on the user’s glasses, the machine-learning algorithm can predict what that person is attempting to do, and instruct the soft robotic device to assist appropriately. For instance, if a user is attempting to grasp something, the software can detect this from the camera feed by assessing arm m...
Source: Medgadget - February 6, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Neurology Rehab Source Type: blogs
Perfecting The Power to Talk – The Future of Voice And Speaking
Talking, conversing, exchanging words: for more than 10 million people, this seemingly simple act cannot be imagined without assistive technologies, such as voice generating devices, touch screens or text-to-speech apps. What does the digital future bring for them? How could innovations turn around the translation industry or the medical administration process? Here’s a glimpse into the future of voice and speaking.
Speaking, identity, voice stereotypes
Give me the key! – This simple sentence carries much more information when it’s pronounced. A weary Philippino mother could instruct her little child as she cannot op...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients apps assistive technology Health Healthcare Innovation speaking speech speech generating voice voice generating device Source Type: blogs
That Time When Ducks Cured My Depression
Sometimes taking care of your own depression can be accomplished by taking care of somebody else.I ’ve been incrediblystressed and depressed lately, so when my 2nd oldest daughter, Cathryn, suggested last month that we celebrate the birthday of my youngest daughter, the Brownie, with a trip into the mountains, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Fresh air up in the clouds sounded like the perfect salve for my soul.My spirits are often lifted by a change of scenery and some exercise. There was only one problem: the Browniehates hiking.With mild cerebral palsy and a learning disability, “simple” hikes become arduous tas...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - October 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Family Goodreads Visualizing Source Type: blogs
What Your Colleagues Learned at ASHA ’s Schools Connect 2018
Apraxia of speech assessments for nonverbal students. Ready-to-implement concussion-management strategies. Modeling voice changes for students. These are just some of the take-aways participants in “Schools Connect” look forward to immediately putting into practice.
Designed for speech-language pathologists who work in schools, health care and private practice, the annual ASHA Connect features hands-on, practical educational sessions that provide practical tools for attendees to use as soon as they get home. The 2018 conference, held last week in Baltimore,
The Leader asked some of the Schools Connect participants abou...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Events Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Apraxia of Speech Childhood Apraxia of Speech clinical fellowship Cognitive Rehabilitation Early Intervention Professional Development Traumatic Brain Injury Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
Xbox Adaptive Controller Makes Gaming More Accessible For All
Since the birth of home video game systems in the 1970’s, the controller has advanced and evolved just as much as the video games themselves. However, game controllers have always largely catered to players with two hands and normal mobility.
To allow more users with limited mobility to enjoy gaming, tech giant Microsoft has introduced a new accessory for the Xbox game system, the Xbox Adaptive Controller. The innovative controller is a black and white rectangle having two round button pads that are programmable and several other buttons. On the back are 19 3.5mm jacks, each jack corresponding to a button on the Xbox...
Source: Medgadget - May 21, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Rehab Source Type: blogs
The Ethics of Keeping Alfie Alive
By SAURABH JHA
Of my time arguing with doctors, 30 % is spent convincing British doctors that their American counterparts aren’t idiots, 30 % convincing American doctors that British doctors aren’t idiots, and 40 % convincing both that I’m not an idiot.
A British doctor once earnestly asked whether American physicians carry credit card reading machines inside their white coats. Myths about the NHS can be equally comical. British doctors don’t prostate every morning in deference to the NHS, like the citizens of Oceania sang to Big Brother in Orwell’s dystopia. Nor, in their daily rounds, do they calculate opportun...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Uncategorized AlfieEvans Source Type: blogs
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bioethics and Disability
This report would examine developments at the state and federal-level, court cases, and current views from stakeholders.
Policy Questions
Which states have PAS laws and what do those laws provide? What protections against abuse of PAS?What have the Supreme Court and lower courts held regarding individuals’ rights under PAS laws? The laws themselves?Is there evidence that persons with disabilities are being denied treatment by insurance companies but offered PAS instead, as NCD predicted?How is PAS viewed by disability organizations? Has this evolved in the past 13 years? If so why? If not, why?Are persons with disabi...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 8, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
This year ’s flu season: Public health catastrophe or par for the course?
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If you think that there’s a lot of flu going around this January, you’re absolutely right. Every state except Hawaii is reporting widespread influenza activity, making for a lot of miserable people suffering from classic flu symptoms of cough, fever, headache, stuffy nose, and achy muscles. Hospitals across the United States have been flooded with flu patients. Matters have been made worse by national shortages of IV fluids in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Are we headed toward a historically bad flu season? It’s too early to tell. This year, it could just be that flu season, which is u...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Cold and Flu Health Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
Umbilical Cord Blood Helping Children with Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy is a life-long congenital disorder that affects body movement, muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, posture and balance. Cerebral palsy is caused by damage to the developing brain either during pregnancy or shortly after birth.
In a phase II trial, Duke University Medical Center researched the use of stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood to treat children diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
“The research demonstrated improvements in motor function a year after the injection of a high dose of stem cells from a child’s own cord blood.”1 Further, this treatment shows it could ...
Source: Cord Blood News - January 15, 2018 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: Cord Blood stem cells Source Type: blogs
Cord Blood Proven to Help Children Diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy, normally caused by brain damage or abnormal brain development, is a disorder that affects motor function, balance, and more.
Currently there is no cure for cerebral palsy, however, in a study from Duke University Medical Center children who were diagnosed with cerebral palsy showed significant improvements in both brain connectivity and motor function after receiving infusions of their own cord blood.
It has been found that using the stem cells found in cord blood actually repairs some of the brain damage from cerebral palsy.
Jessica Sun, assistant professor of pediatrics, is “hopeful that cord blood and ...
Source: Cord Blood News - January 1, 2018 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: brain development Cord Blood medical research Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2017
We reported a surge in the use of augmented reality in healthcare at the end of 2016, with the trend continuing in 2017. Notably, Microsoft’s HoloLens was successfully used for spinal surgery applications by a surgical navigation company named Scopis. There are several advantages to this system including reduced radiation exposure of patients, improved screw placement accuracy, and decreased surgery times.
It has been an exciting year for healthcare with many advances in how diseases are diagnosed, treated, and cured. Medical devices are constantly becoming smaller, smarter, cheaper, more precise and user friendly...
Source: Medgadget - December 26, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
ADHD: Writer's Roadblock
Sometimes Writer’s Block is due to Road Work Ahead.I wish the roadblocks of life would announce themselves better. Then I could chart my detours in time to avoid them. Maybe they could have mechanized arms to wave at me, catching my attention as I rocket from Point A to Point B. Most roadblocks in life do give me advance warning. It’s the ones that family members throw up in my way that catch me off guard. It is as if they announce the upcoming construction by standing on the side of a road with a postcard filled with tiny hand scratchings that somewhat resemble English. They don’t even so much as nod the...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - November 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Family Goodreads Writing Source Type: blogs
Medical Malpractice – Who’s Being Sued and What Is It Costing
Shutterstock A baby is born. The delivery was rocky, with the infant’s heart rate showing occasional signs of distress. Later, the parents learn that their child has cerebral palsy, and may never walk normally. Was the obstetrician to blame and, … Continue reading →
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 31, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Peter Ubel Tags: Health Care healthcare costs Peter Ubel syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
NIH News in Health, October 2017
Check out the October issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. In this issue:
Coping With Grief: Life after Loss
Losing someone you love can change your world. There’s no right or wrong way to mourn. Finding healthy ways to cope with loss can help you make it through tough times.
Spotlight on Brain Tumors: Do You Know the Symptoms?
A tumor in the brain isn’t like tumors in other parts of your body. Learning about the possible symptoms of brain tumors can help you know when to tell a doctor about them.
There are also Health Capsules...
Source: BHIC - October 4, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kay Deeney Tags: Children and Teens General Source Type: blogs
Exoskeleton Developed to Improve Walking of Kids with Cerebral Palsy
Most exoskeleton research has focused on helping paralyzed people to walk upright and for soldiers and workers to easily carry heavy loads. At the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center Rehabilitation Medicine Department researchers built an exoskeleton to improve the walking gait of children with cerebral palsy.
Many children with cerebral palsy exhibit what’s known as a “crouch gait,” bending their legs excessively and not straightening them during each forward step. This awkward walking style is inefficient and tiring, but so far solutions for improving this conditions have been limite...
Source: Medgadget - August 25, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Rehab Source Type: blogs
