A study found that after three months of practicing a modified form of Tai Chi in which participants are seated, stroke survivors had improved hand and arm function, sitting balance, mental health and ...
Paul Baker, a three-time stroke survivor from Patchogue, is the first patient at Catholic Health’s St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson to receive MicroTransponder’s Vivistim® Paired VNS™ System, an ...
HOUSTON, Texas — Structured physical activity can improve brain function after stroke, a meta-analytic review of relevant studies shows. "We found that a program as short as 12 weeks is effective at ...
As long as five years after suffering a stroke, people were able to regain use of a weak arm when their strong arm was restrained during two weeks of intensive therapy, new research shows. The study ...
Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. When you do the math, that translates to almost 800,000 people in the U.S. who have a stroke each year. And experiencing a stroke can be ...
Stroke survivors have improved recovery of hand and arm function with the help a new rehabilitation protocol thanks to finely tuned electrostimulation of target muscles in the arm. It happens that, ...
Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke -- impacting a person’s ability to walk, move and speak. For most patients who survive, progress plateaus after six months of therapy.