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.
Weak muscles and abdominal fat are a dangerous combination for older people who have difficulty walking, according to a study published in the journal Age and Aging.
Go inside the community simulation environment of Realistic Environment Applied Learning (REAL) therapy and learn how functional, task-specific treatment improves service delivery and patient outcomes. By Tracie Hunnicutt, MS, CCC-SLP; Julie Clement, OTR; and Susan Adix, PT.
MedRhythms announces the closing of a $25 million Series B financing round to help the company commercialize its flagship product for chronic stroke survivors with walking deficits and advance its digital therapeutics pipeline.
Healing Innovations Inc announces the successful completion of the first pilot for the new Rise&Walk InClinic technology at Shepherd Center in Atlanta. The pilot included the technology's different use cases, and gathered session data including clinician and patient feedback.
The physical and financial cost of falls is staggering, but risk assessment, lifestyle adjustments, and home modifications mean falling does not have to be a fact of aging, shares Donna Bainbridge, PT, EdD, AT-Ret, CIFT, in this feature for the November/December 2019 issue of Rehab Management.
Tekscan Inc introduces the F-Scan64, a wireless in-shoe pressure mapping system designed to collect gait data for clinical research.
Shannon Motisi, PT, DPT, and Lauren Wright, PT, DPT, discuss how getting patients up and walking after stroke, TBI, and incomplete SCI is a goal that technology and the right intervention help achieve, in this feature for the July/August 2021 issue of Rehab Management.