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.
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OneStep Expands Capabilities to the Upper Body
Digital physical therapy platform OneStep announces its capabilities are expanding to monitor the upper body.
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Forget Mood Rings, What Does Your Walk Say About How You Feel?
Can you tell how energetic or fatigued a person is, just by looking at how they walk? That’s what researchers wanted to know.
Pilot Study Explores Neural Mechanisms of Balance Dysfunction After Traumatic Brain Injury
Using neuroimaging techniques and electroencephalography (EEG), Kessler Foundation researchers compared the neural correlates of balance in individuals with traumatic brain injury and matched controls.
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Show Me the Numbers
Physical 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.
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The 10 Best Balance Boards of 2021, According to a Physical Therapist
Livestrong chatted with New York-based physical therapist Winnie Yu, DPT, CPT, and nailed down the 10 best balance boards you can buy.
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Evolution Devices Pilots EvoWalk Digital Therapy Platform
Evolution Devices has launched its EvoWalk Platform pilot program for people living with neurologically based partial walking paralysis.
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This Switches On and Speeds Up Tendon Healing
Researchers 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.
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There Is No ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Gait Strategy for People with Parkinson’s, Researchers Say
Various 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 MoreGait, Balance, and Beyond
Physical Therapy Products showcases these products designed to help people walk away from lower extremity impairment and injury, in its August/September 2021 issue.
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PoNS Device Is a Stroke Rehab Breakthrough, Per FDA
Helius 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.
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Another Lingering Factor from COVID-19: Increased Fall Risk
The 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.
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MedRhythms Closes $25M Series B Funding to Advance Digital Therapeutics Platform
MedRhythms 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.
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More Than Just Walking: New Role for Core Brain Region Could Offer Parkinson’s Treatment
A key brain area thought to merely regulate locomotion contains neurons that control different body movements, suggesting possible Parkinson’s therapeutics.
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LifeBridge Adopts KneeKG System to Help Find Cause of Knee Pain
Two 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 MoreIntegrated Interventions for Stroke Rehab
Emily 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.
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Essential Tools for Successful Physical Therapy Treatment
Keep 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.
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MedRhythms and Massachusetts General Hospital Launch Study of Gait Asset for Multiple Sclerosis
MedRhythms 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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