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Video game system technology helping physical therapists, athletic trainers

By Guest PostJune 5, 2018Healthbrad willis, david echelmeyer, marjorie skubic, motion assessment, orthopaedics, physical therapists, rehabilitation, seth sherman, trent guess, video game

New studies from MU researchers provide evidence that video game technology can help health care providers discover injury risk and track rehabilitation progress among athletes, patients

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Motion-based lab technology can help physical therapists, clinicians and athletic trainers analyze how we move—it also is very expensive. Some motion labs can cost upward of $100,000. Now, a team of University of Missouri researchers is finding that the depth camera often associated with video game systems can provide a variety of health care providers with objective information to improve patient care. (more…)

Krankheitserfahrungen teilen

By Guest PostMay 6, 2016Healthchristina burbaum, gabriele lucius hoene, krankheitserfahrungen teilen, rehabilitation, rehaerfahrungen

Internetportal startet neuen Informationsbereich zur medizinischen Rehabilitation

Was erwartet Patientinnen und Patienten in der medizinischen Rehabilitation (Reha)? Welche Möglichkeiten zur Mitsprache haben sie? Wo liegen eventuelle Hindernisse und wo Chancen? Über diese und weitere Fragen können Interessierte sich ab sofort auf der Internetseite krankheitserfahrungen.de informieren. Im neuen Bereich „Medizinische Rehabilitation“ berichten ehemalige Rehabilitandinnen und Rehabilitanden in Form von Texten, Video- und Audioclips von ihren Erfahrungen. Ziel ist es, künftigen Rehabilitanden dabei zu helfen, ihre eigene Reha aktiv mitzugestalten und den größtmöglichen Nutzen aus ihr zu ziehen. Krankheitserfahrungen.de ist eine frei zugängliche, kostenlose Website, die bereits Beiträge zu den Themen chronischer Schmerz, Diabetes, Epilepsie chronisch-entzündliche Darmerkrankungen, Brustkrebs bei Frauen, Darm- und Prostatakrebs anbietet. Ein Team unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Gabriele Lucius-Hoene und Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Bengel vom Institut für Psychologie der Universität Freiburg betreut die Website in Kooperation mit der Universitätsmedizin Göttingen.

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The Science of Movement

By Guest PostSeptember 6, 2014Health3d, biometrics, chinese infants, combat zika, compassion, forschungsprojekt dorian, function, hochschule der medien, homeless people, martin steinebach, monica silver, nachrichtenportale, nicole kraemer, obesity, parkinson, postdoctoral researcher, rafael reif, rehabilitation, symptoms, treatment, tremor

From Parkinson’s to obesity, the School of Kinesiology is using exercise as a prescription to make a difference in people’s lives.

In the dim light of a School of Kinesiology lab, infrared light-sensitive tape glows on a dozen points of a subject’s body, like stars of a constellation. While she moves, these anatomical landmarks are tracked 200 times per second, appearing on a screen behind her. (more…)

Brilliant 10

By Guest PostOctober 7, 2012Education, Sciencebody parts, brilliant 10, california irvine, capability, cars, computational algorithm, computer engineering, computer vision, delaware, deva ramanan, flat photography, honor roll, human template, identify, image recognition, monitor, patient, pedestrian detection, popular, rehabilitation, science magazine, self driving, software, system, teaches, three-dimensional, uci, ud alumnus, university, videogame systems, young scientists

UD alumnus one of Popular Science magazine’s ‘Brilliant 10’ Young Scientists

University of Delaware alumnus Deva Ramanan has been named one of Popular Science magazine’s “Brilliant 10” Young Scientists.

The designation places Ramanan on the magazine’s annual “honor roll” of the 10 most promising scientist for 2012.

Ramanan, who earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering at UD in 2000, is an associate professor of computer science at the University of California Irvine (UCI). There he is working to improve a computer’s image recognition capability, or in simpler terms, a computer’s ability to “see people.” (more…)

Fukushima Lesson: Prepare for Unanticipated Nuclear Accidents

By Guest PostMarch 12, 2012Environmentalexandra navrotsky, davis, decontamination, earthquake, edward h kraus, electricity, Environment, fission, fukushima, fukushima daiichi, fukushima reactor, human health, hydrogen gas, Japan, japanese government, knowledge, magnitude, nuclear fuels, nuclear power plant, nuclear waste, peter burns, radiation, radioactive fallout, rehabilitation, rodney ewing, seawater, tepco, tsunami, university of california, university of michigan, university of notre dame, uranium dioxide, zirconium alloy

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— A year after the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, scientists and engineers remain largely in the dark when it comes to fundamental knowledge about how nuclear fuels behave under extreme conditions, according to a University of Michigan nuclear waste expert and his colleagues.

In a review article in this week’s edition of the journal Science, U-M’s Rodney Ewing and two colleagues call for an ambitious, long-term national research program to study how nuclear fuels behave under the extreme conditions present during core-melt events like those that occurred at Fukushima following the March 11, 2011, magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. (more…)

At a Loss for Words

By Guest PostNovember 20, 2011Health, Scienceaphasia, aphasia research project, biological and cognitive processes, brain, brain damage, brain impairs, bullet, celeste barajas, communication impairments, gabrielle giffords, human communication problems, inability to speak or write, language and hearing sciences, language impairment, language recovery, loss of phonology, magnetic resonance imaging, mechanisms of recovery, mri, national institutes of health, network of brain regions, neuroimaging, pelagie beeson, pima county, rehabilitation, scanner, speech, speech language pathology, steven rapcsak, stroke, traumatic brain injury, university of arizona

*Research into aphasia – the inability to speak or write well-formulated sentences and words – is strong at the UA. Researchers have received $2 million toward the study of the condition.*

The National Institutes of Health have awarded the University of Arizona’s Aphasia Research Project in the department of speech, language and hearing sciences a $2 million grant to research communication impairments in adults who have suffered brain injury.

Aphasia – the inability to speak or write well-formulated sentences and words – is a common result of a stroke or a traumatic brain injury such as the one suffered by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head earlier this year. The bullet damaged regions of the brain that are critical for language and control of the right side of the body. (more…)

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