Sentences with phrase «improve arm function»
Working with Columbia Technology Ventures, a team of individuals ranging from professors at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to undergraduate students at Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a device meant to improve arm function in patients with SMA.
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The researchers cited a survey of such patients showing that «regaining arm and hand function is considered the highest priority for improving the quality of life.»
Joseph Poole, M.D., Ph.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and colleagues studied whether therapy with granulocyte - macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM - CSF), an agent that functions as a white blood cell growth factor, would improve walking performance in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease (a form of vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one leading to a leg or arm).
Shepherd Center is one of 12 U.S. centers participating in a clinical trial that is evaluating whether coupling navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the brain with standard occupational therapy can measurably improve hand and arm function following a stroke.
In other words, nerves in the arms activated and adapted to improve function of the spinal cord in other areas of the body, such as the legs, affected by stroke.
Related reading: «New, non-invasive treatment improves hand and arm function in people with spinal cord injury»
The CSNE is now recruiting more participants with challenges using their hands and arms after spinal cord injury, and the center will continue to test this novel form of stimulation as an innovative approach to improving hand and arm function.
What follows are six exercises to help improve neck, shoulder, arm and thoracic spine function.