Sep 05 2008

BIAA Spearheads Senate Letter Urging TRICARE to Cover Cognitive Rehabilitation

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 »

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Dec 18 2007

Scientists seek to help ‘locked-in’ man speak

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.

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Oct 11 2006

Special Education: The expensive vehicle that will help drive our children to a better future

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.

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Oct 02 2006

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 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.

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Sep 29 2006

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 horses rough-playing in a pasture in Shelby County.

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Sep 29 2006

Graduate enters field that helped her find her voice

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.

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Sep 29 2006

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 help people who have lost lots of blood?

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Sep 29 2006

Health notes

Wednesday

Radiant Research-Akron — Offers free cholesterol, diabetes and blood pressure screenings, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, 754 S. Cleveland Ave., Suite 200, Mogadore. Call 330-628-6001 for an appointment.

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Sep 29 2006

A cooler approach to treatment

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.

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Sep 29 2006

SOUTH SHORE ENTREPRENEUR: CENTERS HELP SMOOTH THE ROAD TO RECOVERY; 3 who met in Braintree work with traumatic brain injury

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.

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