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Why Do We Choose To Survive After Tragedy?
Why did my brother warn me against reading this book? It’s so good! I thought to myself, as I quickly devoured the pages of JoJo Moyes bestseller titled Me Before You. It was an uplifting tale about a young man who rediscovers love and laughter after a devastating spinal cord injury left him in a dangerous pool of depression. Finding myself at times in my own, albeit more shallow, pool of depression, I knew this story was exactly what I needed to remind me that I could find meaning in my life after my stroke.
As I continued reading, anticipating the feel-good happy ending with a girl saving the boy's life with the power ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Effect of Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation On Gait In Patients With Stroke (P4.039)
Conclusions:Rhythmic auditory stimulation combined with treadmill training is effective in improving selected gait kinematics in stroke patients when added to the selected physical therapy program.Disclosure: Dr. Ibrahim has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mousa Ahmed has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mohamed Fahmy has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 17, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Ibrahim, M. A., Ahmed, G. M., Fahmy, E. M. Tags: Neuro-rehabilitation: Motor Recovery and Spasticity Treatment Source Type: research
The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on motor sequence learning and upper limb function after stroke
Stroke is a leading cause of adult disability and many people are left with impairments and are dependent on others for activities of daily living (Dobkin, 2005; DOH, 2007; Veerbeek et al., 2011). Strategies to improve plasticity and enhance motor learning are needed. One potential approach is to use transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to enhance the effect of physical therapy.
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - March 30, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Melanie K Fleming, John C Rothwell, Laszlo Sztriha, James T Teo, Di J Newham Source Type: research
Criterion-Referenced Values of Grip Strength and Usual Gait Speed Using Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Disability as the Criterion.
CONCLUSIONS: Our reported cutoffs can serve as criterion-referenced values, along with those previously determined using different indicators, and provide important landmarks on the performance continua of older adults' grip strength and UGS. These landmarks could be useful in interpreting test results, monitoring changes in performance, and identifying individuals requiring timely intervention. For identifying older adults at risk of IADL disability, grip strength is superior to UGS.
PMID: 28079633 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Physical Therapy - January 9, 2017 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Lee MC, Hsu CC, Tsai YF, Chen CY, Lin CC, Wang CY Tags: J Geriatr Phys Ther Source Type: research
Balance evaluation techniques and physical therapy in post-stroke patients: A literature review - Lendraitien ė E, Tamošauskaitė A, Petruševičienė D, Savickas R.
A stroke (cerebrovascular accident - CVA) is a significant social-economic issue. Approximately 15-30% of all patients develop life-long disability, 20% require over 3 months of specialized care in healthcare institutions, and the majority of the patients ...
Source: SafetyLit - December 2, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
First-Person Perspective Action Observation Training in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease: A Consideration-of-Concept Controlled Pilot Trial.
CONCLUSIONS: This pilot study suggests that FPP AOT is a feasible intervention and the research protocol designed would be suitable, with minor modifications, for the conduction of a subsequent stage 2 trial designed to verify the hypothesis that the adjunct of FPP AOT might improve motor performance in individuals with IPD.
PMID: 27893565 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Physical Therapy - November 22, 2016 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Giorgi G, Ferrarello F, Merlo F, Fumagalli S, Marchionni N, Di Bari M Tags: J Geriatr Phys Ther Source Type: research
Balance evaluation techniques and physical therapy in post-stroke patients: A literature review
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2016 Source:Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska Author(s): Eglė Lendraitienė, Agnė Tamošauskaitė, Daiva Petruševičienė, Raimondas Savickas A stroke (cerebrovascular accident – CVA) is a significant social–economic issue. Approximately 15–30% of all patients develop life-long disability, 20% require over 3 months of specialized care in healthcare institutions, and the majority of the patients never recover the ability to maintain a proper vertical position. Such CVA sequelae as balance disturbances not only negatively affect patients’ daily physical activity, bu...
Source: Polish Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery - November 17, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Source Type: research
Balance evaluation techniques and physical therapy in post-stroke patients: A literature review.
Abstract
A stroke (cerebrovascular accident - CVA) is a significant social-economic issue. Approximately 15-30% of all patients develop life-long disability, 20% require over 3 months of specialized care in healthcare institutions, and the majority of the patients never recover the ability to maintain a proper vertical position. Such CVA sequelae as balance disturbances not only negatively affect patients' daily physical activity, but also result in social isolation. A number of standardized clinical scales, tests, and instrumental examination techniques have been proposed for evaluating not only post-CVA balance ...
Source: Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska - November 16, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Lendraitienė E, Tamošauskaitė A, Petruševičienė D, Savickas R Tags: Neurol Neurochir Pol Source Type: research
Janet Reno Proved Life Does Not End After A Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis
Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, died Monday from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. She was 78 years old, and her remarkable life ― including a career that continued for years after her initial diagnosis ― reveals just how productive and purposeful life can be with the neurological condition.
The way people experience Parkinson’s disease can be vastly different, and there is no one way the progressive disease typically unfolds. In some people, symptoms can be mild for many years, while others will be hit with severe disability and cognitive impairment early. About o...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 7, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Newly Identified Gait Patterns in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis May Be Related to Push-off Quality.
CONCLUSIONS: Based on a small set of 9 variables measured with 2-dimensional clinical gait analysis, patients with MS could be divided into 3 different gait classes. The gait variables are suggestive of insufficient ankle push-off.
PMID: 27174257 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Physical Therapy - October 31, 2016 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Kempen JC, Doorenbosch CA, Knol DL, de Groot V, Beckerman H Tags: Phys Ther Source Type: research
Design and Evaluation of a Soft and Wearable Robotic Glove for Hand Rehabilitation
In the modern world, due to an increased aging population, hand disability is becoming increasingly common. The prevalence of conditions such as stroke is placing an ever-growing burden on the limited fiscal resources of health care providers and the capacity of their physical therapy staff. As a solution, this paper presents a novel design for a wearable and adaptive glove for patients so that they can practice rehabilitative activities at home, reducing the workload for therapists and increasing the patient’s independence. As an initial evaluation of the design’s feasibility the prototype was subjected to m...
Source: IEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering - September 30, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Book Review: Upper-extremity task-specific training after stroke or disability: A manual for occupational therapy and physical therapy.
PMID: 27799604 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy - September 30, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Walsh AH Tags: Can J Occup Ther Source Type: research
Paraplegics Regain Some Feeling, Movement After Using Brain-Machine Interfaces
This study was funded by grants from the Brazilian Financing Agency for Studies and Projects (FINEP 01 ·12·0514·00), Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the Itaú Bank. The authors list additional acknowledgements in the manuscript. They declared no competing financial interests related to this work.###
Source: DukeHealth.org: Duke Health Features - August 11, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Duke Medicine Source Type: news
Repairing the Brain by SCF+G-CSF Treatment at 6 Months Postexperimental Stroke: Mechanistic Determination of the Causal Link Between Neurovascular Regeneration and Motor Functional Recovery
This study provides novel insights into the development of new restorative strategies for stroke recovery.
Source: ASN Neuro - August 8, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Cui, L., Wang, D., McGillis, S., Kyle, M., Zhao, L.-R. Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Stroke Heroes 2016
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Puget Sound Division, along with our sponsor Medtronic, congratulates the honorees for this year's Stroke Hero Awards. We had amazing stories sent to us. Thank you to all of you who submitted a nomination. Here are some of the inspiring individuals honored this year as a Stroke Hero.
AMY MOORE, Stroke Survivor
Amy is described as a truly an inspiring person who has never let her stroke stop her from accomplishing her goals. Her stroke was diagnosed at six months of age and left her legally blind. Amy learned Braille during her first two years of high school an...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
