Final preparations are being put in place for the opening of a brand new service which is set to be launched at Goole District Hospital.
The doors of the new Goole Neuro-Rehabilitation Centre will be open to patients from Monday October 22nd 2007. It is the result of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [...]
Patients who have had a stroke can experience significant improvements in their lives if they receive occupational therapy – their chances of deteriorating are also reduced, according to an article in the The British Medical Journal, issued this week.
Stroke is the foremost cause of severe, long-term disability in adults worldwide, as well as being the [...]
From JRRD Vol. 44, Issue 4
Does the RT3 accelerometer spell the end of pen-and-paper questionnaires?
Here is a great thought…the arduous task of filling out boring questionnaires may soon be obsolete! Well, at least for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) whose activity levels must be monitored by doctors. Thanks to the RT3 accelerometer, MS patients [...]
The federal government should place a higher priority on funding research on rehabilitation therapy, according to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) in a statement given August 14 to the Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR). The recent testimony follows a report to Congress released by ICDR earlier this year emphasizing the importance of rehabilitation [...]
In a study published in the August issue of Nature Neuroscience, researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland found that there are separate adaptable networks controlling each leg and there are also separate networks controlling leg movements, e.g., forward or backward walking. These findings are contrary to the currently accepted theory that leg [...]
The American Hospital Association in a statement on Thursday said it will seek to have Congress block a rule announced by CMS that will reduce Medicare payments for inpatient hospital care, CQ HealthBeat reports (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 8/2).
The inpatient hospital care rule in fiscal year 2008 will reduce Medicare reimbursements by 1.2%, rather than 2.4% [...]
State-of-the-art brain implants that record or stimulate neural activity to help people with nervous system damage will be made possible under a major new National Institutes of Health grant awarded to Brown University, Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems Inc. and the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Center at Case Western Reserve University.
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging [...]
A new US study suggests that preschool children prefer the taste of fast food and drinks from McDonald’s branded packages to the same food and drinks from unbranded packages.
The study is reported in the August issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the journals in the JAMA/Archives.
The incentive for the study [...]
Now that a study suggests that no evidence exists that the popular nutritional supplement chondroitin may prevent or reduce pain for arthritis, patients may wish to consider the benefits of physical therapist intervention for pain relief from certain arthritic conditions, says the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). The study, done by Swiss researchers at the [...]
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