Stroke can change your life in a single day. Around the world, more than 15 million people have a stroke each year, and ...

A new rehabilitation strategy is showing promise helping patients recover lost motor function and independence after suffering strokes. When combined with rehabilitation therapy, the implantable ...

In findings recently published in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Semrau and doctoral candidate Joanna Hoh suggest ...

Combining brain stimulation with intense physical rehabilitation helped stroke survivors recover movement in their arms and hands and maintain these improvements for one year, according to a study to ...

For the first time, researchers have used electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord to immediately restore arm and hand movement in two patients with chronic moderate-to-severe upper limb ...

Stroke recovery represents one of the most challenging yet hopeful journeys in medicine. While the brain damage from a stroke cannot be reversed, the remarkable ability of the human brain to rewire ...

New research has found that specific genes may be related to the trajectory of recovery for stroke survivors, providing doctors insights useful for developing targeted therapies. New research led by ...

St. Louis, Nov. 30, 2000 — Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a new technique called constraint-induced movement (CIM) therapy, or forced-use therapy, ...

He quickly started rehab at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Omaha. Within a few weeks, therapists say he made remarkable ...

Scientists at EPFL have developed an innovative, non-invasive brain stimulation therapy to significantly improve visual ...