Posted on 05/29/2005 7:37:45 AM PDT by ddtorque
Suffering a stroke can be severely debilitating, frustrating, and costly. It's the leading cause of long-term disability in the US with current statistics indicating that there are over 4.5 million Americans who have survived a stroke or brain attack and are living with the after-effects. According to the National Stroke Association, only 10% of stroke survivors recover almost completely.
Today, the chances of full stroke recovery and stroke rehabilitation with post-stroke home treatment for paralyzed muscles are being improved with the advanced Israeli-developed training device Biomove 3000 Stroke Rehabilitation system, the first such device specially developed for home therapy after stroke.
Israeli company Curatronic Ltd. announced this month that it has obtained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marketing approval for the Biomove 3000. The battery-powered device detects extremely small electrical electromyographic (EMG) signals that persist in paralyzed muscles after a stroke and uses these tiny signals to initiate an electrical stimulation impulse to the muscles, resulting in actual muscle movement by the patient, according to Curatronic CEO Ben Philipson.
"With the Biomove training technology, all you need is a tiny bit of movement left - even a finger or a toe wiggling. That's sufficient for the device to be picked up as an initial signal to stimulate the muscles from the brain...The device is set to deliver stimulation impulses to the same muscle group - thus activating the muscle. The patient only has to invest a tiny bit of effort and the device responds."
This form of stroke rehabilitation and stroke treatment is used to re-learn which part of the brain to activate and to re-develop spontaneous muscle control. This stroke recovery technology, said Phillipson, is known as ElectroMyoGraphic triggered NeuroMuscular Electrical Stimulation or EMG triggered NMES.
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are you a pr man for israeli medicine?
Down, boy. I personally read this because my mom had a stroke and can't use her right arm.
The world needs to know that Israelis continue to thrive and contribute to the betterment of all mankind, even as they come under attack by Islamosavages. Such is the strength of the Jewish people.
>>Down, boy.
check the other posts. it was just a question. nothing more.
you want to offer me a job? lol.
i'm not a man (at least last i checked lol). i am an Israel loving technology buff, and i think and hope that some of the items i post can help people.
Thanks for the website. It is hard to find good unbiased info.
The articles you have posted are very interesting to me. Thanks for the information!
Gee, you seemed to have missed all the medical achievements of Palestinian science ;-)
Good News
Thanks for the post.
Oh well....
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