Using Radar to Predict Alzheimer’s and Falls
A new method can detect falls risk and cognitive disorders by analyzing a person's gait with a small radar sensor easily mounted on surfaces.
A new method can detect falls risk and cognitive disorders by analyzing a person's gait with a small radar sensor easily mounted on surfaces.
Digital physical therapy platform OneStep announces its capabilities are expanding to monitor the upper body.
Can you tell how energetic or fatigued a person is, just by looking at how they walk? That’s what researchers wanted to know.
Using neuroimaging techniques and electroencephalography (EEG), Kessler Foundation researchers compared the neural correlates of balance in individuals with traumatic brain injury and matched controls.
Read MorePhysical Therapy Products editorial director Melanie Hamilton-Basich profiles equipment that provides data to track patients’ physical therapy progress in this feature for the October/November 2021 issue.
Read MoreLivestrong chatted with New York-based physical therapist Winnie Yu, DPT, CPT, and nailed down the 10 best balance boards you can buy.
Read MoreEvolution Devices has launched its EvoWalk Platform pilot program for people living with neurologically based partial walking paralysis.
Read MoreResearchers at CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at NUI Galway, suggest how the simple act of walking can power an implantable stimulator device to speed up treatment of musculoskeletal diseases.
Read MoreVarious strategies can help people with Parkinson’s who have difficulty walking, but a new study suggests that many people have never heard of or tried these strategies and that a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach doesn’t work.
Read MorePhysical Therapy Products showcases these products designed to help people walk away from lower extremity impairment and injury, in its August/September 2021 issue.
Read MoreHelius Medical Technologies Inc has received Breakthrough Designation from the US Food and Drug Administration for its PoNS device as a temporary treatment of dynamic gait and balance deficits due to symptoms from stroke, it announces.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic may have increased older adults’ risk of falling and injuring themselves, due to changes in physical activity, conditioning and mobility, a new national poll suggests.
Read MoreMedRhythms 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.
Read MoreA key brain area thought to merely regulate locomotion contains neurons that control different body movements, suggesting possible Parkinson’s therapeutics.
Read MoreTwo LifeBridge Health entities, the Wasserman Gait Laboratory at the Sinai Rehabilitation Center and the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, are now using the FDA-approved KneeKG system.
Read MoreEmily Lyter, PT, DPT, explains how the use of technology for post-stroke patients leads to better assessments, more effective interventions, and efficient care outcomes, in this feature for the June/July 2021 issue of Physical Therapy Products.
Read MoreKeep therapy engaging and effective by using technologies manufactured with the PT clinic in mind, Garrett Early, PT, DPT, COMT, OCS, explains in this feature for the June/July 2021 issue of Physical Therapy Products.
Read MoreMedRhythms announces the launch of a clinical trial, in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), that will study MR-004, MedRhythms’ multiple sclerosis (MS) asset.
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