Day: May 1, 2010

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved onabotulinumtoxin A (Botox) as a treatment to decrease spasticity in various muscle groups of the upper limb. In three clinical trials reviewing the effect of the drug on wrist and finger…

Chinmay Manohar of the Mayo Clinic is designing a device to help motivate people to be more active. His team has developed a program that helps people monitor their normal day-to-day physical activity using an everyday device like a cell…

In a pilot trial, a home video game system modified by engineers at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. improved hand function in teenagers with cerebral palsy. Rutgers engineers, members of the university’s Tele-Rehabilitation Institute, worked with clinicians at the Indiana…

For “Boston” Bill Hansbury, slowing down following his
amputation surgeries was not an option.

Delegating easier projects to less experienced technicians will reduce
heating and fabrication errors.

Using only brain waves, patients can learn to manipulate a hand orthosis quickly, according to a recent study. Test patients were able to harness their brain waves based on the information they received from biofeedback. This brain-computer-interface (BCI) control is…

In business, as in dog ownership, there are no bad employees —
just bad owners.

Focus on the quality of your tweets, not the number of followers you
gain.

A horseback riding accident mangled Cole Porter’s legs in 1937, forcing the famous composer and lyricist to endure more than 30 operations in 20 years. Even so, he kept writing hit songs until his right leg had to be removed…

Research regarding generational differences in work values has relied heavily on anecdotal or non-empirical data which was considered limited, according to Jean M. Twenge, PhD, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and lead author of the study, Generational…