A breakthrough treatment is helping stroke survivors recover motor skills by combining physical therapy with nerve ...

Patients in their 30s and 40s highlight the importance of early rehab, risk recognition and determination in overcoming ...

A stroke can rob people of their ability to perform everyday tasks. But now, a promising new approach is offering hope.

Aadeel Akhtar is on a mission to meet the skyrocketing demand for prosthetics with his bionic Ability Hand—and change the narrative around disability.

That has resulted in 120,000 Americans under 50 and some 2 million young adults worldwide suffering strokes each year, in ...

More younger adults, including two women in the Omaha metro area, are suffering strokes. Doctors are studying this trend, and ...

MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) - A Moline woman is proving that determination and creativity don’t end with physical limitations. Three years ago, a severe stroke left 71-year-old Debbie Wheeler Roth’s right ...

Question: How can occupational therapy help me or my loved one regain independence after a stroke? Answer: Occupational therapy (OT) is all about getting you back to doing the things that matter ...

I’ve been working with this hand all my life, and it’s hard,” Flessness said.Flessness said it got to the point where he was asking doctors to cut it off.“I had no use for it. It was dead at the time, ...

The findings demonstrate that stroke survivors treated with paired vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for upper extremity deficits post-stroke had improvements in impairment, activity, participation and ...

Following the stimulation (or sham) intensive speech therapy involved more than three hours of repetitive drills based on multimodality aphasia therapy (M-MAT), which could include reading ...

Sensory function is essential for functional post-stroke recovery and control of basic hand movements like grasping. Despite this fact, therapy focuses strongly on motor aspects of rehabilitation, ...