A new stroke rehabilitation computer program employs sensors to recognize and count arm movements with 77% accuracy, its makers say. Once refined and further tested, they plan to offer the program ...

A sensor-equipped computer program was nearly 80% effective in identifying and counting arm movements in patients undergoing stroke rehabilitation, researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine ...

According to the World Stroke Organization, one-in-four people will suffer a stroke at some point in their life.

Losing the use of an arm after a stroke can be devastating, but new research could offer survivors fresh hope. The study found that a combination of targeted brain stimulation therapy, along with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intensive arm motor therapy improved modified Rankin Scale scores among a “substantial” portion of patients who ...

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and the third cause of induced disability, according to estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study. Treatments ...

A phase II, randomized clinical trial found that the optimal period for intensive rehabilitation of arm and hand use after a stroke should begin 60 to 90 days after the event. A phase II, randomized ...

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, ...

Stimulating a nerve that runs between various organs and the brain with intense physical rehabilitation improved arm and hand function in people with stroke. The improved motor function remained at ...

When 66-year-old Oswald Reedus had a stroke in 2014, he became one of 795,000 people in the United States who annually suffer the same fate. This year he also became the first stroke patient in the ...

A sensor-equipped computer program can accurately identify and count arm movements in people participating in stroke rehabilitation, a new study shows. Now that it can do so, the next step, say the ...

The NHS Fast (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) acronym is a simple way to help people identify the most common signs of a stroke: ...