Mechanical engineer and inventor Zach Lerner has received a grant to launch a 5-year clinical trial of a device to help improve mobility among children with cerebral palsy.
An optimized ankle exoskeleton system increased participants' walking speed by about 40% compared with their regular speed, according to Stanford University researchers.
Exoskeletons could cause wearers pain or injury if they don't fit properly. A new measurement method designed to test fit and fluidity aims to ensure that does not happen.
Researchers from Harvard University and Boston University explain, in IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB), how soft exosuit technology could help bring immediate improvements in walking speed and endurance tests among stroke survivors with chronic hemiparesis.
Read MoreAdvanced technologies can help therapists move patients affected by upper limb deficits toward lasting function gains, Heidi Nash, MOT, OTR/L, and Danielle Wilt, OTR/L, OTD, suggest in the April 2020 issue of Rehab Management.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the UPnRIDE robotic standing wheelchair for marketing and use in the United States, UPnRIDE Robotics Ltd announces in a media release.
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Elizabeth Watson, PT, DPT, NCS, shares how an intensive, boot camp-style, activity-based program fosters recovery and emotional well-being, in this feature for the March 2020 issue of Rehab Management.
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Post Acute Medical LLC, a system of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, has acquired three additional EksoNR devices from Ekso Bionics to expand the availability of exoskeleton-assisted rehabilitation to seven of its facilities.
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In Nature Neuroscience, Northwestern Medicine researchers describe their ability to reconstruct the stable neural signal that drives skills like tying sneakers. This discovery could be a potential advance in the design of neuroprostheses, they suggest.
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Retired Army Sargent Theresa Vereline became reportedly the first paralyzed American to successfully complete a marathon, walking the entire 26.2 mile distance of the 2019 New York City Marathon using a ReWalk Personal 5.0 robotic exoskeleton device, ReWalk Robotics reports.
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BIONIK Laboratories Corp has partnered with Intelliware Development to customize and deploy InMotion Connect, a software program designed to connect InMotion robotic devices with hospital information systems.
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Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc announces the expansion of its medical exoskeleton portfolio with an upper extremity rehabilitation device called EksoUE.
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Rehab therapists share their top equipment choices for conditioning and training that help their patients achieve the greatest gains. Compiled by Debbie Overman, associate editor of Rehab Management.
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Via the worldwide adoption of its EksoGT exoskeleton, stroke and spinal cord injury patients have been able to take 100 million steps to date—the equivalent of 50,000 miles, or the distance of walking around the world twice, Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc estimates.
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Therapists use activity, technology, and evidence-based guidelines to deliver treatment that rewires motor pathways. A feature for the November/December 2018 issue of Rehab Management by Meri K. Slaugenhaupt, MPT, and Valerie Bucek, MA, CCC-SLP/L.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) “L” codes for Myomo Inc’s MyoPro System of wearable medical robotics.
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Three patients with chronic paraplegia were reportedly able to walk over ground thanks to precise electrical stimulation of their spinal cords via a wireless implant. A study from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland details the research.
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Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have designed a robotic arm that they suggest could help facilitate self-help and upper-limb mobile rehabilitation for stroke patients.
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