As long as five years after suffering a stroke, people were able to regain use of a weak arm when their strong arm was restrained during two weeks of intensive therapy, new research shows. The study ...

A new rehabilitation strategy is showing promise helping patients recover lost motor function and independence after suffering strokes. When combined with rehabilitation therapy, the implantable ...

Stroke survivors have improved recovery of hand and arm function with the help a new rehabilitation protocol thanks to finely tuned electrostimulation of target muscles in the arm. It happens that, ...

A robotic arm exoskeleton being tested in Spokane is reaching to advance recovery for stroke patients. Developed at University of Idaho, a two-joint device is in trial use for one arm at Providence St ...

In December 2011, Heather Rendulic awoke to a pricking, tingling feeling on the left side of her body. She later learned that a cluster of weak, tightly packed blood vessels near the base of her skull ...

Combining brain stimulation with intense physical rehabilitation helped stroke survivors recover movement in their arms and hands and maintain these improvements for one year, according to a study to ...

For the first time, researchers have used electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord to immediately restore arm and hand movement in two patients with chronic moderate-to-severe upper limb ...

About 25% of Americans will experience a stroke, according to Steven Edgley, MD, director of stroke rehabilitation at University of Utah Health since 2006. Edgley knows full well how life-changing a ...

Stroke recovery represents one of the most challenging yet hopeful journeys in medicine. While the brain damage from a stroke cannot be reversed, the remarkable ability of the human brain to rewire ...

New research has found that specific genes may be related to the trajectory of recovery for stroke survivors, providing doctors insights useful for developing targeted therapies. New research led by ...