Sentences with phrase «electrical stimulation for»

Targeted areas might receive Laser Therapy for decreasing inflammation, ultrasound for warming, neuromuscular electrical stimulation for muscle strengthening, and balance and proprioceptive exercises to help with agility, strength, and overall movement.

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The work is still in it's early stages — «Any effort to use electric current for stimulating the brain outside the laboratory or clinic could be dangerous and should be strongly discouraged,» Green cautions — but there are already places where the idea of electrical stimulation is being tested out in the real world.

He thought this rhythmic electrical stimulation could compensate for a breakdown in the heart's ability to pump its own muscles, an idea that had intrigued him in the past, but one that he hadn't thought was possible at the time.

His fate changed after a friend of his father's loaned him a machine called a TENS, short for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.

I had only paracetamol and a TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) machine for pain relief and the water, of course.

This stands for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.

«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.

An electrode «cuff» that clamps around the outside of nerve bundles is also being tested but because the electrodes don't enter the nerves, greater changes in electrical input are needed for stimulation.

A noninvasive technique for brain stimulation, tDCS is applied using two small electrodes placed on the scalp, delivering short bursts of extremely low - intensity electrical currents.

Patients with SCI underwent 30 minutes of electrical nerve stimulation therapy five days a week for six weeks on one limb.

New treatments for spinal cord injury, including stem cells, gene therapy and electrical stimulation, are being studied.

Electrical brain stimulation benefitted subjects for months, but critics point to the study's small size

«Thus, direct induction of sleep spindles — for example, via transcranial electrical stimulation — perhaps combined with targeted memory reactivation, may enable us to further improve memory performance while we sleep.»

Electrical stimulation will be administered in combination with motor training of the ankle, as a major problem for people trying to walk after stroke is an inability to flex the ankle on their affected side.

The cuffs work in a similar way to Sørensen's implants but, because they do not enter the nerves, greater changes in electrical input are needed for stimulation.

Cases of savant syndrome have inspired an electrical brain stimulation technique for boosting creative insight

People who have been in a minimally conscious state for weeks or years have been temporarily roused using mild electrical stimulation.

A man in a vegetative state for 15 years has been able to open his eyes, move his head, and even try to smile, after electrical stimulation of his vagus nerve

Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques aimed at mental and neurological conditions include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression, and transcranial direct current (electrical) stimulation (tDCS), shown to improve memory.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Center.

«It is the first to use neuromuscular electrical stimulation as a diagnostic tool, and offers an effective treatment strategy that can drive down health care costs for chronic pain.»

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

As before, the memory for this room was awakened in a new context by light stimulation, and simultaneously paired with an electrical shock.

(Lin noted that existing methods of electrical deep brain stimulation for aggression control are prohibited in the United States but approved in some European countries.)

Our findings that amygdala neurons carry signals about the subjective percept of emotions indicates a more specific reason for why such electrical stimulation might be beneficial.»

These findings also suggest a mechanistic basis for potential treatments involving the painless electrical stimulation of the amygdala, which are currently being studied in ongoing clinical trials.

«Restoring this critical stage of sleep by means of electrical stimulation,» Buzski says, «is a truly intriguing possibility for restoring the declining effect of sleep on memory.»

Since we could turn on the emotions with electrical stimulation, for my dissertation I decided to study rats for the anger and rage system already documented in cats.

However, as early as 2002, Olaf Blanke and others induced OBEs by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient undergoing treatment for epilepsy (Nature, vol 419, p 269).

The researchers then gave each subject 65 electrical pulses using TMS, stimulating areas of the motor cortex and watching for involuntary thumb movements linked to the stimulation.

Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, an international team of life scientists at the University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology reported today in the medical journal Brain.

The researchers applied electrodes to the ears of 34 healthy people and switched on the TENS (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) machines for 15 - minute sessions.

A similar approach is employed with cochlear implants for hearing loss which translate sounds into electrical stimulation of the inner ear and, over time, the brain learns to interpret these inputs as sound.

A new study authored by Marc Schieber, M.D., Ph.D., and Kevin Mazurek, Ph.D. with the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Neurology and the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, which appears in the journal Neuron, shows that very low levels of electrical stimulation delivered directly to an area of the brain responsible for motor function can instruct an appropriate response or action, essentially replacing the signals we would normally receive from the parts of the brain that process what we hear, see, and feel.

Parameters for direct cortical electrical stimulation in the human: histopathologic confirmation.

Dr. Forrest conducts mobility research at Kessler Foundation, where in addition to Ekso, she studies the effectiveness of activity based therapies for recovery of function including electrical stimulation, and the LokomatPro v6 (Hocoma), a robotic treadmill training device.

It discusses what can happen when the amygdala, a region of the brain known for regulating emotional responses, receives direct electrical stimulation.

Design and validation of a bioreactor for simulating the cardiac niche: a system incorporating cyclic stretch, electrical stimulation, and constant perfusion.

«We knew this would be a really good platform for electrical stimulation,» Das said.

And while those hurdles may seem obvious, here is one you may not have considered; where is the power for all of this electrical stimulation going to come from?

For example, we are using electrical spinal stimulation synchronized with residual muscle activity or movement in order to produce lasting improvements in hand and arm function after spinal cord injury.

Before we can use electrical stimulation as a substitute for natural sensory feedback, we need to consider how electrical stimulation works.

Using data from the AHRQ report, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER, 2011) conducted a cost - effectiveness modeling study, assuming that transcranial electrical stimulation and electroconvulsive therapy have equivalent efficacy.

For example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disordFor example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disordfor Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

Primary responsibility will be to work under direction of the Principal Investigator (PI) to complete testing and training protocols; evaluate and research participants for interventions, working with neuromuscular electrical stimulation and exercise using upper - and lower - extremity exoskeleton devices and treadmill training; and perform other related research tasks.

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This technology delivers a consistent stream of electrical stimulation to an implantation site located deep in the brain; however, because stimulation is always on, the DBS's battery may deplete quickly, which necessitates invasive surgery for replacement.

Most of the usual materials used for implants are bulky and rigid, making electrical stimulation difficult.

The team developed a flexible and stretchable fiber that can simultaneously deliver optical (light) pulses for neural stimulation and electrical connections for neural recording, as described in their paper released March 29, 2017 in the journal Science Advances and a corresponding MIT News press release, as well as articles in nanotechweb.org and Materials Research Society.

His doctor diagnosed him with Peyronie's disease — a rarity for such a young man — and set him on a course of treatments that has included electrical stimulation and medicines to dissolve scar tissue