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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Wiiiiii!: Adaptive Exercise That’s Actually Fun:
From Tiffiny Carlson

"When you can’t move more than half your body, whatever your injury level, it never bodes well when it comes to getting exercise."


At the end of Tiffiny Carlson's article in Action Online Newsletter there other resources

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