Rehabilitation & Physical Therapy

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Today, surgeons face many limitations when it comes to helping a patient who suffers from a severe craniofacial injury, or an injury pertaining to the skull and the face. Most often a result of cancer or warrelated circumstances, the injury is both psychologically and physically damaging.
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Right now, signals from your brain are instructing the muscles around each eye to contract, panning your view left to right and adjusting focus along the way. The photoreceptors in your eyes react to the photons reflecting off each letter, ultimately transmitting information through the optic nerve, back to the primary visual cortex, where they are translated into meaning. Although it goes mostly unnoticed, your nervous system is constantly hard at work.
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Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a widely used modality to improve healing of acute and chronic wounds though the application of topical reduced pressure. This therapy helps to literally suck wounds closed. Non-healing wounds from diabetes or bed sores are pervasive healthcare problems, and although patients can benefit greatly from devices that deliver NPWT as demonstrated in hundreds of studies including randomized controlled trials, the costs associated with devices that provide this therapy continue to rise. In 2009, the costs associated with NPWT rose to the eighth most expensive in Medicare’s entire durable medical equipment category. With government emphasis on reducing healthcare spending, there is a need for an alternative to traditional NPWT devices.
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Time and again, gaming technology has proven its ability to benefit our lives in ways that surpass entertainment. It has been utilized in medical and therapeutic applications ranging from helping stroke victims restore functionality, to training users to control stress and multi-task. Another example recently came to my attention this morning, thanks to this news story, which explains how a virtual reality game called SnowWorld is helping burn patients cope with severe pain during wound care sessions, when morphine is simply not strong enough to do the job.

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The list of potential applications for ultrasound is impressive, ranging from non-invasive surgery, to pain therapy, to Alzheimer's treatment. Most recently, doctors in Glasgow, Scotland — the city in which ultrasound was pioneered as a diagnostic tool in the 1950s — started using the technology to heal broken bones, with promising results.

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Dizziness and balance issues are the most frequently reported symptoms following exposure to an improvised explosive device.
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A battery-powered exoskeleton helps paraplegics stand and walk in a straight line, using a gesture-based human-machine interface.

eLEGS is a wearable, artificially intelligent, bionic device that enables people with paralysis to stand up and walk again. The exoskeleton is battery-powered and rechargeable, fitting comfortably and securely over clothing.
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