Robots, Therapists Help Patients Gain Limb Movement Years after Stroke
From: Physical Therapy Products - SOAP Notes - 04/28/2010

A recent study found that intensive physical therapy with specially trained
personnel and newly created robotic aids can help stroke patients regain limb
movement more than a year after a stroke occurs. 

A VA-funded study at four VA medical centers has found that intensive therapy
with specially trained personnel and newly created robotic aids can help
stroke patients regain limb movement more than a year after a stroke occurs.
Results of the study, led at the Providence VA Medical Center by Albert Lo,
assistant professor of neurology at the Alpert Medical School of Brown
University, are published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

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Links:
Rehab Robots Engineered to Help Stroke Patients
http://www.ptproductsonline.com/news/2009-04-22_01.asp

Robotics Research is Enhancing the Lives of People with Disabilities
http://www.ptproductsonline.com/news/2008-08-12_01.asp

Clinical Study Shows Patients Gain Limb Movement Years after Stroke
http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2010/04/stroke