OneStep Secures New Funding for Gait Analysis Tool
OneStep has secured $36 million to expand its smartphone-based gait analysis technology, aiming to make gait a widely-recognized "sixth vital sign" for health monitoring and disease management.
OneStep has secured $36 million to expand its smartphone-based gait analysis technology, aiming to make gait a widely-recognized "sixth vital sign" for health monitoring and disease management.
In this full-length Rehab Management feature, Kaila Morin, PT, DPT, CBIS, discusses how walking speed helps guide therapists in how to address fall prevention for their clients.
The St. Pölten UAS and the Austrian general accident insurance institution AUVA have made reportedly one of the biggest data records for automated gait analysis worldwide openly accessible, they announce.
On its own, slow gait can be an indicator of elevated dementia risk, but when it appears together with memory issues the effect on dementia risk should not be ignored, according to researchers.
Read MoreWhat people hear and do not hear can have a direct effect on their balance, according to a study from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Read MoreSelect 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
Read MoreNeil 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 Rehab Management.
Read MoreDizzy 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 Rehab Management feature.
Read MoreConsumption 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.
Read MoreMeasuring 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.
Read MoreNeofect 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.
Read MoreA 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).
Read MoreDevin 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMEDRhythms 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.
Read MoreRxFunction, creator of Walkasins, has expanded its walk2Wellness study to include researchers at Hebrew SeniorLife, with enrollment of its first participant completed recently.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMost 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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