STORY: ''Hello I am NAO. Today I'm going to be your exercise companion.'' It's small in stature, but this robot could make a big difference for those on the road to recovery. Researchers have found ...

June marks Aphasia Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about aphasia, a language disorder that affects communication abilities following brain damage, often due to stroke. Aphasia ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: My sister recently had a stroke and will be starting rehab soon. What can she expect? DEAR READER: Rehabilitation helps restore abilities impaired by the stroke. How much progress your ...

Stroke rehabilitation is a complex; multidisciplinary process aimed at maximizing recovery and improving the quality of life ...

A first-in-human trial has found that pairing physical therapy with deep brain stimulation to encourage post-stroke rehabilitation is a safe and feasible treatment, even years after the stroke. The ...

East Hanover, NJ – August 17, 2022 – Olga Boukrina, PhD, senior research scientist in the Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation, has received a five-year $674,156 K01 grant ...

The paragraph in the top panel depicts whole-word errors, ie, neglect of whole words on the left side. In the bottom panel are examples of within-word errors or unilateral paralexias, ie, where a ...

When Doriean Matthews was young, her mother, who was a nurse, had a big influence on her life. Later, when Matthews suffered an injury and had to go through physical therapy, the experience had an ...

Mark Lionti’s world changed in April of 2018, when he had a stroke at age 57. The Reading resident received lifesaving care at Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in Bern Township. But after ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Since his wife passed away, Terry Taylor said reading has become his greatest passion. However, the headaches he's experienced have rendered him unable to do that. So, he turned ...