Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes paralysis in roughly one million people worldwide, with incident cases rising yearly.
VIVATRONIX Tech and SpineX have announced approval from India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) for the ...
Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...
A pioneer in the field of rehabilitation, the MetroHealth Rehabilitation Institute helps patients regain as much physical and cognitive function as possible so that they can get back to the things ...
A new study has tested innovative proof-of-concept technology that syncs electrical stimulation with rehabilitation robotics to enable individuals paralyzed after spinal injury to move more naturally.
A South Jersey facility called Project Walk has this non-invasive spinal cord stimulation therapy that is helping a lifeguard ...
Ever year, more than a million people in North America suffer some form of spinal cord injury (SCI), with an annual cost of more than $7 billion to treat and rehabilitate those patients. The medical ...
CLEVELAND — Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that using Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for post-stroke rehabilitation patients is safe and may even help restore movement. The EDEN trial ...
An experimental treatment that delivers an electrical current to the spinal cord appeared to notably improve the ability of a man with Parkinson’s to keep his balance and walk without freezing up, a ...
A project at MIT has investigated whether optogenetics could be a better way to drive muscle contraction in clinical treatments than traditional electrical stimulation. Published in Science Robotics, ...