Sep 05 2008
Reflecting one of BIAA’s biggest public policy accomplishments this year, a group of Senators issued a letter on August 4, 2008 to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates urging official TRICARE coverage of cognitive rehabilitation. Continue Reading »
Dec 18 2007
NEW YORK (CNN) — It’s been described as the closest thing to being buried alive — complete paralysis of the body, except for controlled movement of the eyes.
Oct 11 2006
Local schools are called upon to make major investments in the lives of children with special needs
Name : Ronald Scaglia
Last year, 21 Long Island school districts’ budgets were defeated, and a record number were forced to adopt austerity budgets.
Oct 02 2006
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 delivered with the use of a robotic exercise device. Significant improvements were observed for severely impaired participants, which indicates that improvement is not limited to individuals with moderate impairments. Moderately and severely impaired patients tolerated intense, frequent, and repetitive treatment. This information is useful for determining the optimal target population, intensity, and duration of robotic therapy and the necessary sample size for a larger trial.
Sep 29 2006
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 horses rough-playing in a pasture in Shelby County.
Sep 29 2006
By David Tisdale
Brooke Jorns Davis of Hattiesburg will walk the walk at graduation today at the University of Southern Mississippi, only because the university’s Children’s Center for Communication and Development enabled her to talk the talk.
As a child, Davis had an articulation disorder that prevented her from engaging in normal speech.
Sep 29 2006
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 help people who have lost lots of blood?
Sep 29 2006
Wednesday
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Sep 29 2006
Doctors inducing hypothermia in trauma cases
By JACOB GOLDSTEIN
Knight Ridder Newspapers
MIAMI - Twenty years ago, W. Dalton Dietrich and his colleagues had a problem: the rats in their laboratory experienced the same kind of stroke but had dramatically different outcomes.
Sep 29 2006
Name : BRAD KELLY
The Patriot Ledger
Helping victims of traumatic brain injuries often can be a frustrating process. But the owners of Community Rehab Care have been able to build a rewarding career guiding those with such disabilities to recovery.
