Should Physical Therapy Be Used as Rehab After Hip Replacement?
A study presented during the recent American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting suggests that physical therapy after hip replacement surgery may not be necessary.
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A Surprising Application for Botox: Musculoskeletal Disorders
Botulinum toxin (BoNT-A), best known by the brand name Botox, may also be used to treat several different types of musculoskeletal disorders, according to researchers at Uniformed Services University (USU).
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Happy Nurses = Better Stroke Outcomes?
In hospitals with better nurse work environments, ischemic stroke patients experienced lower odds of 7‐ and 30‐day readmissions and lower lengths of stay, according to a new study
Keep Moving to Preserve Mobility While Aging
Light-intensity physical activity, including shopping or a casual walk, may protect mobility in older women, according to new research from Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego.
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Study Evaluates Virtual Reality as a Holistic Treatment for Chronic Pain
Results from a randomized controlled trial evaluating virtual reality therapy for treating chronic pain at home suggests that AppliedVR’s EaseVRx device produced “clinically meaningful” improvement in multiple pain outcomes, and had high participant satisfaction and engagement.
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The 2-Week Peak: Stroke Recovery
The capacity of the human brain to recover and rewire itself peaks around 2 weeks after a stroke and diminishes over time, according to researchers who followed the recovery of 60 stroke patients up to 1 year after their stroke.
Read MoreCan Elon Musk Fix Spinal Cords?
The entrepreneur’s neruotechnology company, Neuralink, is preparing a moon shot to treat spinal cord injuries and brain injuries.
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PT Has This Effect on C-Section Outcomes
Women who received physical therapy after undergoing a cesarean section had significantly improved outcomes compared to those who did not, according to a new study from University of Missouri Health Care.
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How Achilles Tendon Shape Differences Could Affect Injury Susceptibility
Individual variation in the shape and structure of the Achilles tendon may influence one’s susceptibility to injury later in life, according to a study published in eLife.
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Survival Data: PT Helps COVID-19 Patients Live
Patients recovering from COVID-19 who underwent physical therapy in the hospital had lower incidence of mortality compared to those who did not, according to a study presented recently at the Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting.
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Expanded Disability Status Scale Identifies Disability in Patients With and Without MS
The Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), which assesses the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), found both older individuals with and without MS to have significant disability, according to a recent study, per Neurology Advisor.
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Youth Sports Promote Social & Emotional Learning, Especially Among Young Men Of Color
Laureus USA has released the results of a comprehensive study showing sports-based youth development (SBYD) programs play a significant role in fostering critical social and emotional learning (SEL) skills necessary to succeed in school, careers and life.
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How Robotic Gait Training Could Aid Early Stroke Recovery
High-dose therapy gait training using robotic exoskeletons may aid early rehabilitation for acute stroke, a study published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics suggests.
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How Does Gender Factor Into Concussion Recovery?
Female and male collegiate athletes take approximately the same amount of time to recover from a concussion, with subtle differences in recovery time depending on the type of sports being played and the division level of the sport.
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Opioid Use ‘Stigma’ Appears to Play Role in Acceptance of New Patients
People who take opioid medications for chronic pain may have a hard time finding a new primary care clinic that will take them on as a patient if they need one, according to a new “secret shopper” study of hundreds of clinics in states across the country, published in Pain.
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Fox Foundation Funds Parkinson’s Smell Test
A nose-on-chip platform to detect the characteristic smell linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD) is being further developed thanks to a $670,000 grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
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Stem Cell Transplants May Help Prevent Worsening of MS Disability
Intense immunosuppression followed by a hematopoietic stem cell transplant may prevent disability associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) from getting worse in 71% of people with relapsing-remitting MS for up to 10 years after the treatment, according to a recent study.
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A Bone “Cocktail” for Hard Cases
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in collaboration with colleagues in Dresden, Germany, have developed a way of combining a bone substitute and drugs to regenerate bone and heal severe fractures in the thigh or shin bone. The study was published in Science Advances.
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