Tutors Help Cognitive Developement

16 January 2012
San Antonio Military Medical Center researchers are conducting a trial for a new therapy to improve some of the chronic symptoms of traumatic brain injury.
The study is meant to determine the best treatment for combat soldiers who are suffering from difficulties with attention, concentration, memory and judgement.
Douglas B Cooper,the trial leader, explained that the Study of Cognitive Rehabilitation Effectiveness (Score) is designed to treat long term patients .
He explained that there have been many interventions used to help people with traumatic brain injury during the first few days after the incident.
“We don’t have as many good interventions later on – six to twenty four months post-injury,” he said.
He explained that cognitive rehabilitation involves a number of interventions designed to help people with brain injuries manage, reduce, or cope with cognitive deficits.
The TUTORS have been designed to optimize cognitive performance and also to better perform everyday functional tasks.
Rehabilitation using the HANDTUTOR, ARMTUTOR, LEGTUTOR and 3DTUTOR is being done in the USA at major rehabiliaiton in-patient and out-patient clinics as well as at private physical therapy clinics. Many patients including stroke and cerebral palsy as well as those who have had a TBI or Spinal cord injury can also avail themselves of the HANDTUTOR, ARMTUTOR, LEGTUTOR and 3DTUTOR through the use of tele rehabilitation.
The TUTORS have been developed to allow for functional rehabilitation of the whole body including the upper and lower extremity. The system consists of ergonomic wearable devices and dedicated rehabilitation software that provide patient instructions and feedback to encourage intensive massed controlled exercise practice. In this way, the TUTOR system allows for controlled exercise of multijoints within the normal movement pattern which prevents the development of undesired and compensatory joint movement and therefore ensures better performance of functional tasks. This is important in stroke, brain, spinal cord (SCI) and Cerebral palsy rehabilitation in addition to other neurological and orthopedic injury and diseases. Additional features of the TUTOR system include quantitative evaluation and objective follow up that is important in the physiotherapists treatment of the stroke patient. The TUTORS are FDA and CE certified. The new medical devices,the TUTOR system, are available for children as well as adults. See WWW.HANDTUTOR.COM for more information.