Easterseals released its Easterseals Study on the Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities. Conducted by Accenture, the report provides data on how deeply the pandemic has affected people with disabilities.
No pain means no gain when it comes to reaping exercise benefits for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), reports a new Northwestern Medicine study, published in JAMA.
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) has awarded the University of Florida (UF) Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Center a grant for $348,891 for its research project to help understand and improve gene therapy for Duchenne.
Researchers have discovered a strong link between genetic changes known to cause neurodevelopmental disabilities and cerebral palsy, they report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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An underused type of knee surgery in younger patients, called high tibial osteotomy, shows considerable success in reducing the need for total knee replacement, research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) suggests.
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The National Institutes of Health is supporting a Wayne State University School of Medicine physician-researcher’s work at preventing and treating cerebral palsy in the form of two new 5-year R01 grants worth a collective $5.59 million, Wayne State reports.
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According to a new study published in Frontiers in Political Science, voters do not apply negative stereotypes when evaluating candidates with a disability. Rather, they tend to perceive candidates with a disability as capable, honest, and caring.
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Targeted electrical spinal cord stimulation could stabilize blood pressure in people with spinal cord injury (SCI), researchers suggest, in a study published in Nature.
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(Reuters) – German researchers have enabled mice paralyzed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected into the brain.
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The Parkinson’s Foundation announces the results of a survey measuring how people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. Complete results are available in npj Parkinson’s Disease.
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Using gene therapy, researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum report success in getting mice to walk again after a complete cross-sectional injury. The key to this success, they note, is the protein hyper-interleukin-6, which stimulates nerve cells to regenerate and the way it is supplied to the animals.
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Placing sensors on the sole of a prosthesis that are connected to the wearer’s nervous system may help the user perceive the prosthesis as being lighter and aid its acceptance, according to a study conducted by Stanisa Raspopovic at ETH Zurich.
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Neuros Medical Inc announces two milestones in its QUEST (High-FreQUEncy Nerve Block for PoST-Amputation Pain) study.
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Living alone may elevate the risk of dying following a hip fracture, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
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Dewpoint Therapeutics announces a new research collaboration with Pfizer for the development of potential therapeutics for the treatment of myotonic dystrophy type 1, DM1, a rare genetic disorder and one of two types of myotonic dystrophy.
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The damaging effects of obesity are not due to body weight but rather come from something much smaller: biochemical signals released by fat cells, a study from Shriners Hospitals for Children – St. Louis published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests.
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Persons with spinal cord injury and older healthy individuals have similar brain activation during processing speed tasks, according to this Kessler Foundation study, which researchers suggest supports the theory of accelerated cognitive aging following spinal cord injury.
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Short-term “prehabilitation” strength exercises, undertaken pre-surgery, are insufficient to prevent muscle loss, researchers in the University of Birmingham’s School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences suggest.
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