Austco Vayyar Partnership to Develop Fall Detection System
A partnership between Austco will develop a touchless, camera-free fall detection and activity monitoring system to help detect falls.
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MedRhythms Closes Funding Round, Aims to Advance Digital Therapeutics Platform
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.
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How Specially Designed Orthotics Can Help Kids with Cerebral Palsy Walk and Play
Adapting splints in combination with the footwear used by disabled children to help them walk can decrease the energy they use by as much as 33%, according to researchers in the journal The Foot.
Select Medical Adds Robotics Technology at its Inpatient Rehab Hospitals
Select Medical announces it is expanding its medical rehabilitation services to include advanced robotics technology developed by Hocoma in 23 of its inpatient rehabilitation hospitals across the US
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Getting Work-Ready and Life-Ready
Neil Taylor, OT, CWCE, CWcHP, and Ari Kaplan, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, COMT, Cert MDT, explain how functional capacity evaluations help employees, employers, and therapists, in this feature for the March 2020 issue of Rehab Management.
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Vestibular Rehab to the Rescue
Dizzy symptoms and fear of falling aren’t just a problem for the elderly. A vestibular program is good for the whole community—and the clinic, according to the authors of this feature for the March 2020 issue of Rehab Management.
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Drinking Cocoa Offers This Sweet Benefit If You Have Peripheral Artery Disease
Consumption of cocoa may improve walking performance for patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), suggests a study published in Circulation Research, a journal from the American Heart Association.
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Walk This Way to Screen for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Measuring changes in muscle function and identifying compensatory walking gait in young boys could lead to earlier detection of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, researchers opine in a study published in Chaos.
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Neofect Debuts Smart Balance, Designed to Rehab the Lower Body by Playing Games
Neofect unveils Neofect Smart Balance, a lower-body rehabilitation device designed to help patients recovering from stroke, ambulatory injuries, and other lower body disabilities regain function in their legs via augmented reality.
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Use This to Help Predict Adverse Outcomes After Discharge
A new frailty index shows promise in determining how acute illness affects functional ability in older patients admitted to hospital, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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Stroke Rehabilitation from “Head to Toe”
Devin Cooney, MOR, OTR/L, Brittany Merkh, PT, DPT, and Kelly Tender, MS, CCC-SLP, write about the integration of technology-based rehabilitation within stroke recovery in this feature for the November/December 2019 issue of Rehab Management.
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Fall Risk and Fall Prevention in Older Adults
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, Donna Bainbridge, PT, EdD, AT-Ret, shares in this feature.
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MEDRhythms Launches Trial of Post-Stroke Walking Device
MEDRhythms Inc has launched a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at five top rehab hospitals and research centers across the country to examine the impact of a digital therapeutic device on stroke survivors who have post-stroke walking impairments, in support of the company’s eventual FDA submission.
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Walkasins Maker RxFunction Expands walk2Wellness Study
RxFunction, creator of Walkasins, has expanded its walk2Wellness study to include researchers at Hebrew SeniorLife, with enrollment of its first participant completed recently.
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Slowpokes Beware: How Quickly You Walk Could Indicate Your Brain and Body Health
The walking speed of 45-year-olds, particularly their fastest walking speed without running, can be used as a marker of their aging brains and bodies.
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Gait Training: Keep it Challenging
Most patients want the best walking outcome possible, so therapists must leverage the utility of challenge to lead patients toward their goals. A feature for the September/October issue of Rehab Management by Katherine De Tata, PT, DPT, and Justine Mamone-Lucciola, PT, DPT.
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Take a Walk to Predict Post-Stroke Return-to-Work Readiness
A simple walking speed test may help predict whether young adult stroke survivors are ready to return to work, according to new research published in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.
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Therapeutic Shoe is Helping Stroke Patients Relearn How to Walk
A therapeutic shoe engineered to help improve stroke recovery is proving successful and is expected to hit the market by the end of the year, researchers from University of South Florida suggest.
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