MossRehab will soon begin the exclusive U.S. clinical trial for a new assistive technology called the ReWalk. The ReWalk is a motorized exoskeleton suit that enables patients with lower limb disabilities, including complete paralysis, to independently engage in ambulatory activities, such as standing, walking and in some cases climbing stairs.The ReWalk consists of a lightweight [...]
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by Steven A. Jax, PhD, David A. Rosebaum Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19141, United States. The dorsal, action-related, visual stream has been thought to have little or no memory. This hypothesis has seemed credible because functions related to the dorsal stream have been generally unsusceptible to priming from previous experience. Tests of this [...]
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by Laurel J. Buxbaum, PsyD, Mary Ann Palermo, Dina Mastrogiovanni, Mary Schmidt Read, Ellen Rosenberg-Pitonyak, Albert A. Rizzo, H. Branch Coslett Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA A total of 9 participants with right-hemisphere stroke performed a new virtual reality (VR) wheelchair navigation test of lateralized spatial attention and neglect. The test consists of [...]
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by H. Barbeau, PhD, R. Elashoff, PhD, D. Deforge, MD, J. Ditunno, MD, M. Saulino, MD, B.H. Dobkin, MD McGill University/Institut de Readaptation de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. BACKGROUND: Timed walking speed for 6 to 15 m and the distance walked in 2 to 12 minutes are frequently used outcome measures in rehabilitation trials, presumably [...]
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by Junghoon Kim, Brian Avants, Sunil Patel, John Whyte, MD, PhD, Branch H. Coslett, MD, John Pluta, John A. Detre, James C. Gee Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common causes of long-term disability. Despite the importance of identifying neuropathology in individuals [...]
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by Tessa Hart, PhD, Jesse R. Fan, Thomas A. Novak Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Rehabilitation using cognitive and behavioural treatment methods (i.e., experience-based interventions) faces particular challenges in improving its evidence base through rigorous studies such as randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Experience-based treatments are often complex, with multiple “active [...]
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by John Whyte, MD, PhD, Monica Vaccaro, MA, Patricia Grieb-Neff, MS, Tessa Hart, PhD, Marcia Polansky, ScD, H. Branch Coslett, MD Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of bromocriptine on a variety of aspects of attention, ranging from laboratory-based impairment measures to caregiver ratings and work productivity, [...]
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by Laurel J. Buxbaum, PsyD, Kathleen Y. Haaland, Phd, Mark Hallett, MD, Lewis Wheaton, PhD, Kenneth M. Heilman, MD, Amy Rodriguez, MA, CCC-SLP, Leslie J. Gonzalez-Rothi, PhD Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA. Limb apraxia is a common disorder of skilled, purposive movement that is frequently associated with stroke and degenerative diseases [...]
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by Alberto Esquenazi, MD, Nathaniel Mayer, MD, Roser Garreta, MD Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether walking velocity could be improved in patients with disorders related to upper-motor neuron syndrome (UMNS) by treating elbow flexor spasticity with botulinum toxin type A (BoNTA). DESIGN: This was a [...]
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by Mary G. Klein, PhD, Leonard E. Braitman, PhD, Roberta Costello, MS, RN, Mary Ann Keenan, MD, Albert Esquenazi, MD Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA; Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia PA. OBJECTIVE: To examine factors associated with daily step activity, perceived activity, maximum walking speed, and walking speed reserve over time [...]
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by John Whyte, MD, PhD, Tessa Hart, PhD, Colin A. Ellis, ScB, Inna Chervoneva, PhD Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA OBJECTIVE: To examine the interrater agreement and responsiveness to change of the Moss Attention Rating Scale (MARS), 22-item version, during acute inpatient rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN: Observational [...]
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by John Whyte, MD, PhD Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA There has been much discussion of the need to enhance the evidence base supporting rehabilitation practice. Much of this discussion focuses on the need for gathering useful empirical data to support or refute the benefit of specific treatments and services. [...]
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