Helius Medical Technologies launches UpScript, a new e-commerce site to help make it easier for people experiencing issues with their gait to obtain the company’s Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS) device. When combined with an exercise regimen supervised by a...
Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and Rockford Orthopedic Associates, Ltd. D/B/A OrthoIllinois, announce they have become independent divisions of a new entity, OrthoMidwest. The aggregation of two of the three largest independent orthopedic practices in Illinois will...
Force Therapeutics, a full-suite digital care management platform, is now available in AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog where therapists can find, buy, consume, and manage third-party software, services, and data to build solutions and run their practices....
People with neurologic diseases like headache, dementia, multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s disease may experience worsening symptoms due to climate change, according to a scoping review of research published recently in Neurology, the medical journal of the...
For healthy older patients, an aspirin a day does not reduce fracture risk and might increase the risk for serious falls, according to researchers. “Falls and fractures are frequent and deleterious to the health of older people,” Anna L. Barker, PhD, of the school of...
During aging, mice, like humans, become inactive and lose muscle mass and strength. A team of scientists led by Johan Auwerx at EPFL have now discovered that when mice age, their muscles become packed with ceramides. Ceramides, known for their use in skin care...
Protez Foundation, the non-profit helping Ukrainian children, soldiers and civilians who have lost their limbs during the war to get free quality prosthetics in the US, has partnered with OneStep, a digital physical therapy platform using science that turns any...
UT Southwestern physicians have developed an improved targeting method, four-tract tractography, to personalize MRI-guided, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) used at UTSW to treat medication refractory tremor in essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson’s...
Wearables is the #1 fitness trend for 2023, according to survey results published in the January/February issue of ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal, published by the American College of Sports Medicine. Technology continues to impact the fitness industry,...
The motor cortex controls the voluntary movement of muscles. It remains largely unclear why its electrical or magnetic stimulation can alleviate therapy-resistant chronic pain—albeit unreliably. An interdisciplinary research group at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg...
