Stroke patients News
For the findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team explored the extent and location of brain injuries in 167 stroke patients for more than three years.
In about 80 per cent of patients post-stroke, it is typical that one limb loses its ability to function normally - a clinical phenomenon called hemiparesis.
Long term consumption of aspirin in stroke patients has been found to cause the risk of fatal or disabling bleeding, increased with age.
The rehabilitation robotic system, developed at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea, measures the 3 degree-of-freedom (DOF) impedance of human forearm and wrist in minutes.
The new device reads the brain signals, converts them into motion and thus helps the stroke patients to retrain their brains to move their paralysed hands.
It can potentially reduce the number of brain cells destroyed by stroke and also help in repairing the damage done to a certain extent.
Watching 3D images of tongue movements can help individuals learn speech sounds, a new study by University of Texas researchers indicated.
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