Rehabilitation/Prosthetics/Plastic Surgery

A recent international study offers an innovative contribution in the field of electrical stimulation for the recovery of control over lower limb movement Delivering a diversified electric message to the different fibres of the injured…

Certain brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to copy what another speaker says, report researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere in BrainCredit: Sarah Pack, Medical…

TBI research team finds associations between default mode network connectivity and emotion recognition and social integrationCredit: Kessler Foundation/Jody Banks East Hanover, NJ. November 6, 2019. A recent study of…

Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report-- featuring a successful model for returning people with spinal cord injury to the workplaceCredit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - November 1, 2019 -…

Kessler Foundation researchers studied relationships of multiple factors -- age, disease, psychological, person-specific -- with unemployment in individuals with multiple sclerosisCredit: Kessler Foundation/Jody Banks East Hanover, NJ.…

Pitt and Northeastern researchers receive a $1.2M NSF award to develop detection, assessment, and rehabilitation tech using augmented reality and electroencephalography (EEG)Credit: Murat Akcakaya / the University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH…

Scientists have been developing astounding new tools for exploring neural circuits that underlie brain function throughout the first five years of the National Institutes of Health's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative…

US Department of Defense awards $800,000 to Case Western Reserve for spinal cord injury research People who live with spinal injuries often say that the first year of recovery is the toughest--not only for them, but their caregivers as…

Credit: EPFL Close to half a million people around the world suffer from a serious hearing impairment. In some cases, they can find relief in cochlear and other types of implants. Yet these devices do not help people whose inner…

They have detected that fear of movement increases in these patients, while on specific cases, like whiplash, it doesn't have such a decisive influenceCredit: University of Malaga Finding out how kinesiophobia -unreasonable fear of…