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Paralyzed California man re-learns to walk via computer
(Reuters) — For paraplegic Adam Fritz, the thrill of the computer-assisted first steps he took five years after being paralyzed in a motorcycle crash came only after he was unhooked from the system that enabled him to walk briefly in a bioengineering lab.
During the experiment itself, Fritz recounted, he had to keep his mind focused entirely on placing one foot in front of the other as his brain waves were translated by a computer algorithm into impulses that bypassed his severed spinal cord and activated his legs.
“If you break your concentration, it wouldn’t work anymore,” he told Reuters shortly aft...
Source: Mass Device - September 24, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Research & Development Source Type: news
Self-management support interventions for persons with chronic disease: an evidence-based analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: The Stanford CDSMP led to statistically significant, albeit clinically minimal, short-term improvements across a number of health status measures (including some measures of health-related quality of life), healthy behaviours, and self-efficacy compared to usual care. However, there was no evidence to suggest that the CDSMP improved health care utilization. More research is needed to explore longer-term outcomes, the impact of self-management on clinical outcomes, and to better identify responders and non-responders.
PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: Self-management support interventions are becoming more common as ...
Source: Ontario Health Technology Assessment Series - December 20, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Ont Health Technol Assess Ser Source Type: research
A Quantitative Summary of The Listening Program (TLP) Efficacy Studies: What Areas Were Found to Improve by TLP Intervention?
Abstract
A quantitative summary of existing research examining the effects of The Listening Program (TLP) on various functions in children is presented. Nine studies were used, looking at TLP intervention effects across studies, within each study and for various outcome measures. The studies looked at TLP intervention on children with autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, learning disabilities, auditory processing disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, Rhett syndrome, dyspraxia, cerebral palsy, fibromyalgia, arthritis and stroke. The magnitude of the TLP effect size revealed a mean value of 0.41 across al...
Source: Occupational Therapy International - February 17, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sadako Vargas, Jay R. Lucker Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
4 Surprising Everyday Items That Can Hurt Your Health
SPECIAL FROM You may watch what you eat, drink filtered water, and use your seat belt to protect yourself on the road. Yet many health hazards are lurking around us in not-so-obvious places. Here, a few to steer clear of: 1. Scented candles A fragrant candle may help you unwind and de-stress. But burning those containing a chemical calledlimonene, often used for citrus-scented candles, as well as many cleaning products, can produce fumes that are downright unhealthy. Recent British research found that households with a high levels of limonene correlated with high levels of formaldehyde, which irritates the eyes and ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Experience Journal: Growing up with cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability of childhood. The term CP is an umbrella term for a group of disorders that affect body movement and posture as a result of damage to a baby’s developing brain. There are many causes for CP, but all occur either during pregnancy, birth or shortly after birth. Common causes include differences in brain development, infection or stroke. Oxygen deprivation is accountable for only a small percentage of cases of CP; often, the cause is unknown. Although CP is a lifelong condition that can’t be reversed, children with the diagnosis can lead rich, fulfilling lives wit...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - March 18, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Erin Horan Tags: Experience Journal Cerebral Palsy Program Source Type: news
What Genetics are Associated with Multiple Sclerosis?
Discussion
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is “a chronic degenerative, often episodic disease of the central nervous system marked by patchy destruction of the myelin that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers, usually appearing in young adulthood and manifested by one or more mild to severe neural and muscular impairments, as spastic weakness in one or more limbs, local sensory losses, bladder dysfunction, or visual disturbances.”
It is a chronic disease and therefore symptoms must occur more than once. The first episode is called an acute demyelinating attack. Fifteen to forty-five percent of children with their first...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - April 4, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
The Utility of Factor VIII Infusion in a Rare Case of SHAM Syndrome (P4.343)
Conclusions: Genetic testing confirmed the presence of SHAM syndrome with an 83 kb deletion involving both F8 and BRCC3 genes responsible for severe hemophilia and Moyamoya disease respectively. This case illustrates the first phenotypically and genetically confirmed adult case of SHAM syndrome with intracerebral hemorrhage and highlights the utility/safety of factor VIII infusion in this case.Disclosure: Dr. Roh has nothing to disclose. Dr. Roth has nothing to disclose. Dr. Al-Mufti has nothing to disclose. Dr. Chung has nothing to disclose. Dr. Connolly has nothing to disclose. Dr. Eisenberger has nothing to disclose. Dr...
Source: Neurology - April 3, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Roh, D., Roth, W., Al-Mufti, F., Chung, W., E. Sander, C., Eisenberger, A., Park, S., Claassen, J., Agarwal, S. Tags: Cerebrovascular Case Reports Source Type: research
What Genetics are Associated with Multiple Sclerosis?
Discussion
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is “a chronic degenerative, often episodic disease of the central nervous system marked by patchy destruction of the myelin that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers, usually appearing in young adulthood and manifested by one or more mild to severe neural and muscular impairments, as spastic weakness in one or more limbs, local sensory losses, bladder dysfunction, or visual disturbances.”
It is a chronic disease and therefore symptoms must occur more than once. The first episode is called an acute demyelinating attack. Fifteen to forty-five percent of children with their first...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - April 4, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Prevalence of people who could benefit from augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in the UK: determining the need.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: To provide accurate figures on the potential need for and use of AAC, data need to be consistently and accurately recorded and regularly reviewed at a community level. The existing data suggest an urgent need for more accurate and up to date information to be captured about the need for AAC in the UK to provide better services and ensure access to AAC strategies, equipment and support.
PMID: 27113569 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 25, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Creer S, Enderby P, Judge S, John A Tags: Int J Lang Commun Disord Source Type: research
Don't Simply Turn Away
Did you know that there are 35 national health observances that take place during the month of May?
To name a few: Hepatitis and Stroke Awareness Month, Mental Health Month, Teen Pregnancy Prevention, National Physical Education and Sport Week, National Bike to School Day and World Autoimmune Awareness Day. There are a total of 213 national health observances throughout the year.
Some might ask:
"Is of all this necessary?"
"Aren't 213 observances a bit of an overkill?"
"Why so many?"
We often hear these questions because the majority of people don't really understand the hardships, difficulties, and struggles of ot...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The impact of preexisting illness and substance use on functional and neuropsychological outcomes following traumatic brain injury.
This study examined the impact of preexisting illness and substance use on patient rehabilitation outcomes following TBI. The Functional Independence Measure total score and Disability Rating Scale score measured functional outcomes at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation, while the Trail Making Test A and B and Total Trials 1-5 of the California Verbal Learning Test-II measured neuropsychological outcomes in 128 TBI survivors with moderate or severe TBI. Results showed that the presence of a heart condition or diabetes/high blood sugar was associated with lower functional outcomes by discharge. A history of a heart con...
Source: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings - June 30, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Dahdah MN, Barnes SA, Buros A, Allmon A, Dubiel R, Dunklin C, Callender L, Shafi S Tags: Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) Source Type: research
Centaurs, Not Snake Oil
TheTechtour Healthtech Summit hosted by the International Venture Club in Lausanne is a dating event for European seed, start-up and growth companies looking for investment and for Venture capital and some Pharma/Medtech companies looking to invest. Doug Haggstrom went along to take the pulse of European digital health companies. These companies aren ’t specifically focused on Pharma as partners but it is worth paying attention to how digital health products and services are developing. Pharma developed tools and services will, after all, be compared to these companies in the marketplace and the discipline of proving sta...
Source: EyeForPharma - August 2, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tina Boggiano Douglas Haggstrom Source Type: news
How To Find Your Calling (From 5 People Who Found Theirs)
Why does our culture perpetuate the belief that “finding oneself” is an age-specific phase, reserved only for angst-ridden teenagers and wanderlust-stricken 20-somethings? The notion of finding a passion is all-too-frequently aligned with youth and impulsivity, but truthfully, we’re all quietly seeking our next challenge, our next calling.
We’re of the belief that it’s never too late to course correct your life, and given the job-hopping numbers, we’re probably not the only ones. Though the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not regularly track career changes, in a recent study of late...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Severity-Dependent Long-Term Spatial Learning-Memory Impairment in a Mouse Model of Traumatic Brain Injury
This study revealed that long-term spatial learning-memory deficits are dependent on the severity of destruction in the white matter and hippocampus. Therapeutic strategies targeting both the white matter and hippocampus may be needed to improve the neurological functions in TBI victims.
Source: Translational Stroke Research - August 17, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
The Art of Communication
I recently traveled with my daughter, Hannah, on a class trip to China. We expected to visit and learn about the iconic landmarks on our itinerary—Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, Olympic Village. What we didn’t expect was to learn about speech-language pathology and rehabilitation during our tour. However, a visit to a clinic in Chengdu taught us that the field of speech-language pathology is relatively new to China.
China only officially recognized communication disorders starting in 1980. The first speech-language pathology department was established in 1985 at Beijing’s Rehabilitation Center of China. The Chi...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 23, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Yvette McCoy Tags: Advocacy Speech-Language Pathology Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
