How Gait Training Via Exoskeleton Helps Boost Stroke Recovery
Gait training using a robotic exoskeleton has the potential to help spur along the recovery of motor function after a stroke, a study published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics suggests.
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ReStore Powered Exo-Suit Study Achieves Positive Results
The majority of participants in a multi-center clinical study of the ReStore Soft Exo-Suit for the rehabilitation of individuals with lower limb disability due to stroke achieved meaningful walking speed improvements, according to ReWalk Robotics Ltd, in a media release.
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Connecting Care for Stroke Patients
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.
Gaining Ground Against Neurological Injury
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 Expands Exoskeleton Rehab with New EksoNR Devices
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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Here’s How Tuning Out the Brain’s Background Noise Can Help Advance Neuroprosthesis Design
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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BIONIK Labs and Intelliware to Collaborate on InMotion Connect
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 Debuts EksoUE Exoskeleton for Upper Body Rehab Use
Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc announces the expansion of its medical exoskeleton portfolio with an upper extremity rehabilitation device called EksoUE.
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EksoGT Users Have Walked Around the World Twice, Company Estimates
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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Targeted Stim Gets SCI Patients Walking Within 1 Week
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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Robotic Arm Features Integrated Technologies Designed for Self-Help Rehab
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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REHACARE 2018 Scheduled for September 26-29
REHACARE 2018, the International Trade Fair for Rehabilitation and Care, will take place September 26 to 29 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Walk On: Decision Making for Functional Ambulation
Clinical decision-making for restoring gait after spinal cord injury guides the use of therapeutic technologies for reaching patient goals. A feature for the July/August 2018 issue of Rehab Management by Tracy Oostema, PT, DPT, and Kristina Simpson, PT, MSPT.
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Brooks Rehabilitation Introduces FDA-Cleared HAL Robotic SCI Treatment
The FDA-cleared HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) robotic SCI treatment device, developed by Japan-based Cyberdyne Inc, is now available in the United States via a partnership with Brooks Rehabilitation.
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Wearable Robot Provides Artificial Muscle Power
A collaborative research team from Shinshu University in Japan has designed a wearable robot to support a person’s hip joint while walking. Details of their prototype are published in Smart Materials and Structures.
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Mobility Unlimited Challenge Aims to Encourage Development of Mobility Options
Toyota Mobility Foundation, in partnership with Nesta’s Challenge Prize Centre, has launched the $4 million Mobility Unlimited Challenge to develop mobility options for people with lower-limb paralysis.
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ReWalk Robotics Introduces Exoskeleton Designed for Stroke Patients
ReWalk Robotics Ltd, in collaboration with Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering, recently introduced their prototype of a soft suit exoskeleton designed to assist stroke survivors.
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Lower-Limb Robot Exoskeleton Aims to Assist in Gait Rehab
Researchers from China and Denmark have developed a wearable lower-limb robot exoskeleton designed to help aid the gait rehabilitation of stroke and spinal cord injury patients.
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