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Long-term treatment with gabapentin, a commonly prescribed drug for nerve pain, could help restore upper limb function after a spinal cord injury, new research in mice published in Journal of Cli...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/12/researchers-clue-common-nerve-pain-drug-help-restore-sci-function/

Getty Images and Verizon Media have named five recipients of its "Disability Stories" Creative Bursary grant centering around life with disabilities.

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/12/disability-focused-creative-bursary-grants-awarded-five-photographers/

Permobil announces it has named Charles ‘Chuck’ Witkowski, II, Executive Vice President (EVP) Business Region (BR) Americas.

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/12/permobil-taps-chuck-witkowski-lead-business-americas/

The University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will soon welcome the initial cohort of students in a new occupational therapy program, which is the first jo...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/ua-uams-start-occupational-therapy-clinical-program/

Kessler Foundation recently received a $590,000 award from The Geneva Foundation for a 3-year study of the use of an experimental minimally invasive treatment for meniscal tears—the injection o...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/kessler-foundation-receives-geneva-foundation-grant-study-meniscal-tears-treatment/

The percentage of medical students who told their schools that they have a physical, sensory, learning, psychological, or chronic health disability rose sharply in recent years, according to a re...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/study-sees-sharp-rise-medical-students-disabilities-recent-years/

Focused ultrasound thalamotomy, a treatment using ultrasound waves to destroy the area of the brain causing essential tremor, may be effective for up to 3 years, according to a study published re...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/essential-tremor-treatment-via-ultrasound-may-effective-3-years-later/

Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare announces that its Chief Executive Officer Bob Gilligan has stepped down, and that the company’s Board of Directors has appointed former Dentsply Sirona executive Rob...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/drive-devilbiss-healthcare-appoints-new-ceo/

Following a nearly 25-year search across three continents, parents of a pair of sisters — who as children slowly became paralyzed from the waist down — finally have a diagnosis, according to ...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/rare-genetic-variant-suggests-cause-sisters-paralysis-quarter-century-search-answers/

As the busy holiday air travel season begins, Paralyzed Veterans of America is alerting the public to the challenges people with disabilities commonly face during air travel and asking for suppor...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/paralyzed-vets-call-action-urges-safe-accessible-air-travel/

Sheba Medical Center has become what is reportedly the first fully virtual reality (VR)-based hospital in the world, with the aim of improving patient care and facility training.

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/sheba-medical-center-transforms-fully-vr-based-hospital/

Envision announces it is now accepting submissions for clinical education and research presentations for its two annual conferences in 2020: Envision Conference West, April 3-4, UT Health San Ant...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/envision-calls-presentation-submissions-2020-conferences/

The community in which a patient lives influences whether he or she will receive postoperative care and rehabilitation after elective hip replacement surgery in a facility or at home, according t...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/home-inpatientskilled-nursing-postop-rehab-depends-affluence/

Researchers at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research used new closed-loop neurostimulation methods and textile-based electrodes to facilitate individual finger movement and grasp force re...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/skin-stimulation-possibility-help-spur-movement/

Q'STRAINT/Sure-Lok announces that Dan Allison, an occupational therapist (OTR/L) and driving specialist at the Shepherd Center, has received the company's inaugural Q'MANITARIAN Award.

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/qstraintsure-lok-announces-inaugural-qmanitarian-award-recipient/

The expanded Empowered Cities initiative aims to boost financial inclusion and economic opportunity for people with disabilities with municipal offices of New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles a...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/11/empowered-cities-initiative-expands-people-disabilities/

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and Skydeck Chicago are set to host the 11th annual SkyRise Chicago at Willis Tower on Sunday, Nov 3.

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/10/climb-willis-tower-shirley-ryan-abilitylab-skyrise-chicago/

Full-time wheelchair users often are at high risks for pressure injuries, so it is important to have a Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) team evaluation. Learn more about how a seating evaluation is...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/10/avoiding-pressure-injuries/

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox, Allergan) to ease lower-limb spasticity in children and adolescents aged 2 years to 17 years, excluding spasticit...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/10/botox-now-approved-lower-limb-spasticity-children/

University of Chicago Medicine and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab have joined forces to bring the services and expertise of a premier rehabilitation hospital to patients of the academic health system, a...

http://www.rehabpub.com/2019/10/shirley-ryan-abilitylab-teams-uchicago-medicine-manage-rehab/