Study: Muscles respond to getting on your feet after spinal cord injury
...ilitation strategies. Therapists helping patients recover from spinal cord injury should provide sensory information that simulates walking as closely as possible. Weight loading and movement in one leg can influence what happens in the other leg. The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation is funding anothe...Experimental treatment yields new hope for children battling cerebral palsy
...nd has shown significant results in helping adults recover motor function post-stroke. "The pediatric version of constraint-induced movement therapy we created has produced very large and lasting benefits for these children," said Ramey, professor at Georgetown's School of Nursing & Health Studies and Co-di...Blood-diverting catheter holds promise for stroke treatment
...in the stroke area initially have the potential to recover if their blood supply is restored. In theory, increasing the volume of blood to these damaged brain cells should preserve some of them even more than three hours after a stroke onset. Ischemic stroke patients who arrive within three hours of sympto...Hormone released by bone marrow cells may hasten recovery from brain injury
...fering from stroke or other traumatic brain injury recover neurological function quicker following intravenous infusions of bone marrow stromal cells. However, no one has proven that this recovery results from converted bone marrow cells directly replacing or repairing damaged neurons. A growing number of s...Study moves in on why astronauts suffer bone loss
...le the bones of children may be able to eventually recover from such changes, adult bones have a harder time ... missions, but five years later they had failed to recover to pre-launch bone density levels. "The big problem that NASA is facing in their plans to send a man...Stroke treatment window stays open longer than thought, say Stanford researchers
...utes of their stroke were 2.8 times more likely to recover compared to people who received a placebo. Those who were treated with tPA between 90 to 180 minutes were still doing better than the placebo group three months later, but only by a factor of 1.55 times. Patients treated in the three to four and a ha...Evidence suggests that the brain can switch to 'automatic pilot' during learning
...h repetition of a decision task because we rapidly recover our prior responses, which under most circumstance..." said Dobbins. "Since the subject can immediately recover the size of the object, he or she should be able to rapidly perform the comparison. "However, if p...UCSF/Baylor team uses new method to measure bone loss in astronauts flying long mission
...n return to gravity. In addition, those who do not recover the lost bone may be at increased risk of fracture as they age, he added. Other research has noted that it may be possible to use the measurements of the heel bone (measured by DXA and ultrasound technology) as indicators for how much central skeleta...Better predictors are needed for posttraumatic stress disorder in children
...is common, and that most children and parents will recover well. 3. Offer parents anticipatory guidance, such as: Talk with your child and listen to his/her thoughts and feelings Help your child get back to normal activities (as much as possible given the injury). Use your support system, and remember...Ultrasound treatment for hurt muscles may feel good, but doesn't promote healing, study suggests
.... The other limb, used as the control, was left to recover on its own. Rats were sacrificed at various points during the two-month study so that the researchers could evaluate how each gastrocnemius muscle was healing. The researchers compared a variety of markers in the muscle tissue from the ultrasound tre...The preference for sweetened foods may decline after exercise
...rience difficulties to consume enough nutrients to recover after exercise....Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...information, the technique can allow archivists to recover old records and cylinders without using a needle (2pMU4; also see http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-quarks-to-blues.html ). Patrick J. Wolfe of the University of Cambridge in England ( pjw47@eng.cam.ac.uk ) will present state-of-the-...Major study: Bioartificial liver reduces mortality by 44 percent in acute liver-failure patients
...ep patients alive long enough that the liver might recover spontaneously or a donor organ will become available for transplantation. Acute liver failure is diagnosed when a massive loss of hepatic cells causes severe liver dysfunction and life-threatening complications within six months of the onset of symp...AAN 2004 Public Leadership Award goes to Leon Fleisher, musician who overcame dystonia
...le comeback as a musician is proof that people can recover from debilitating neurological disorders, and his selfless commitment on behalf of dystonia research and education merits a standing ovation in itself from the both the neurological community and society at large." Trained in the art of classical ...Study shows heart biopsy possible via arm catheterization
... patients who have catheterization through the arm recover more quickly. When patients have catheterization through the groin, they must wait at least two hours before standing up to make sure the deep incision does not bleed. Because the blood vessels in the arms are smaller and the incision to access the s...Elastic nails help children with broken legs recover faster than traction and body casting
Elastic titanium nails help children recover faster from a broken leg than the traditional treatment with weeks of traction and a body cast, according to a new study from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Children with the implanted nails got out of bed within days after surgery, were le...Adopting 12-step philosophy may enhance outcomes of counseling for cocaine addiction
...out using drugs is boring," or "I don't deserve to recover from drug abuse") may help maintain usage. When patients' beliefs became less negative, there were more reductions in drug use. In fact, changing beliefs about addiction was more highly correlated with reduced drug use than was adopting the 12-step p...Trials launched to test treatment of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia
...residual symptoms and only one in five are able to recover sufficiently to work," said Thomas R. Insel, M.D., director of NIMH. The NIMH approach is built on the assumption that progress in developing new treatments will require collaboration between the best academic, government and industry scientists. The...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 56th Annual Meeting
... PD symptoms and may help remaining brain cells to recover and function better. The GDNF was delivered directly into the brain through a tube. After two years of treatment, patients needed less medication and had improved by 40 percent on a standard PD disability score. This small, open study is being follow...Magnetic treatment may help people with spinal cord injuries
... have suffered partial injuries to the spinal cord recover some of their movement and feeling. We think it works by strengthening the information leaving the brain through the undamaged neurons in the spinal cord. It may work like physiotherapy but instead of repeating a physical task, the machine activates ...