Effective rehabilitation of older people in a district rehabilitation centre

In the March edition of Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine http://bit.ly/gdpzXF Dr. Inger Johansen and her group from Department of General Practice/General Practice Research Unit University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway assess the outcome of rehabilitation of older patients in a district rehabilitation centre following referral from district hospital, nursing homes or their own homes following stroke, arthrosis, hip fracture and other neurological and orthopedic injuries and chronic diseases. The group found that significant and persisting improvements in activities of daily living were achieved by rehabilitation of older patients with stroke, arthrosis, hip fracture and other chronic diseases in a district inpatient rehabilitation centre with co-ordinated and multi-disciplinary rehabilitation.
The HandTutor and ArmTutor are used in clinic, nursing home and home care to give patients upper extremity arm and hand intensive active exercise rehabilitation and the LegTutor and 3DTTutor allow physical therapists to customize lower extremity rehabilitation exercises that motivate the pateints to achieve optimum rehabilitation outcome.

Neurotransmitter could improve post-stroke rehabilitation

Neurotransmitter could improve post-stroke rehabilitation

March 10, 2011
Christian Grefkes from the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in cooperation with scientists from the Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine of the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Department of Neurology of the University Hospital of Cologne looked at eleven stroke patients (between 42 and 74 years old) with fine motor deficits. The group carried out a range of motor tasks which involved the determination of maximum grip power and finger-tapping frequency and the execution of pointing movements. The group showed that by reducing the rate of uptake of noradrenaline which in effect prolongs the efficiency of noradrenaline improves motor skills in stroke patient.

Intensive active exercise practice provided by the HandTutor, ArmTutor and LegTutor system has proven effective in improving functional movement ability in post stroke patients.