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MSU using $1.9M US grant for cerebral palsy study

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Nice to see more research done in the area of Cerebral Palsy.

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Home-based rehab for spinal cord injury patients - News

Home-based rehab for spinal cord injury patients - News: "An Australian first study will test live online rehabilitation with video gaming to give spinal cord injury patients the hope of regaining the movement of their hands.

The ReJoyce workstation is being used for the first time in Australia in tele-rehabilitation which allows patients to get real time specialist physiotherapy over the internet.

The patient wears a glove that enables electrical impulses to stimulate the muscles in the hand to grasp and release, in the hope of sprouting new connections in the spinal cord and re-establishing hand function."...

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