Tag Archives: head trauma

Rural clinicians taught by video

MU program expands access to therapy for brain-injury patients. Name: SRUTHI KUNNEL The MU telehealth program, which helps people with brain injuries receive care from people closer to them, matched 70 traumatic brain-injury patients from rural communities with clinicians who

Father admits killing baby

Name: Carl Butler, Daily Post A NORTH Wales dad yesterday admitted killing his 14-week-old baby son. A court heard how David Robert James Price threw the little boy onto the sofa in a fit of “frustration and temper”. The youngster

Fasken Martineau: Participant Companies Announced for Technology and Life Sciences Investment Forum

Wednesday May 10, 8:00 am ET VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(CCNMatthews – May 10, 2006) – Fasken Martineau is pleased to announce the 14 participating companies for the 9th annual 2006 Fasken Martineau Technology and Life Sciences Forum.

JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke, Parkinson’s treatment, wheelchair durability

Rehabilitation Chronic stroke patients benefit from robotic upper-limb rehabilitation, Intense, short-term, upper-limb robotic therapy improved motor outcomes among chronic stroke patients. Investigators enrolled 30 patients with upper-limb impairment due to stroke. Over 3 weeks, 18 sessions of robot-assisted therapy were

Oak Park council supports parents of special needs children

Group serves as guiding light in confusing times Name : Avi Rutschman avi@theacorn.com The Special Education Advisory Council of Oak Park wants to assure parents of special needs students that they don’t need to feel hopelessly lost when dealing with

Luci Center benefit will celebrate horses, new start

Name : Walt Reichert/Sentinel-News Associate Editor Amateur photographer Molly Raper has captured hundreds of horses on film in nearly every kind of setting, from wild horses splashing in water on the beaches of North Carolina to a pair of therapy

Proposed study seeks a better way to treat blood loss

Trauma – Doctors want to test hypertonic saline on accident victims in Portland and other cities Name : ANDY DWORKIN Doctors hope that the traumatic accidents of thousands in Oregon and nationwide will answer a vexing question: How to best

Vet’s tale is keeping King on the move

By Lynn Carey CONTRA COSTA TIMES IN PALM BEACH, the weather’s fine — especially for Dave King. The author is there with all expenses paid. It’s one of the perks that goes with writing a novel with the wide appeal

Exploring Phantom Limb Pain

Name : Steven A. King, MD, MS April 2006, Vol. XXIII, No. 4 First described more than 500 years ago, phantom limb pain (PLP) is a common disorder today; as many as 50% to 80% of patients who undergo amputation

Food, drink by the hour

Karen Collier 03may06 THE trapped miners are slowly sipping drinks hour by hour and crawling across their cage in a fight to keep alive.