Health
Professor improves wheelchairs to reduce injuries
Manual wheelchairs offer mobility and exercise to people who can't walk, but improper use can result in carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff tears and other injuries.
Sep 15, 2016
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Neuroscience
Monkeys move robotic wheelchairs with their thoughts
(HealthDay)—Researchers who made it possible for monkeys to operate a robotic wheelchair using only the monkey's thoughts say the technology might eventually be used by severely disabled people.
Mar 3, 2016
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E-wheelchair should weigh less
Whilst the advantages of a wheelchair with auxiliary drive are self-evident, they do not always outweigh the disadvantages. The weight of the construction can pose a physical burden on a certain group of wheelchair users, ...
Jun 27, 2016
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Remote learning shown to be effective for preparing clinicians as wheelchair-skills trainers
Results of a cohort study led by experts from four Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems (SCIMS) centers show that clinicians who completed remote wheelchair-skills training not only gained knowledge of wheelchair skills but were ...
Aug 30, 2021
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British scientist Stephen Hawking backs assisted suicide
Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist who suffers from motor neurone disease, has publicly backed the notion of assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses.
Sep 18, 2013
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New initiative aims to increase mobility for disabled children worldwide
A team of global partners has tasked itself with the daunting challenge of bringing mobility to disabled children of developing nations.
May 22, 2012
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Majority of car-pedestrian deaths happen to those in wheelchairs, often at intersections
An investigation into how often wheelchair users are killed in car-pedestrian crashes finds they are a third more likely to die than non-wheelchair users; more than half of those deaths occur at intersections.
Nov 19, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Holistic assessment needed for wheelchair users with multiple sclerosis
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) need to be holistically assessed when being offered an electric wheelchair, a study at Brunel University London has found.
Jan 16, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Vegas woman who couldn't stop growing dies at 34
A Las Vegas woman who suffered a rare disorder that made it impossible for her to stop growing has died. Tanya Angus was 34.
Jan 15, 2013
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Wheelchairs for Nigeria: getting polio survivors on the move
Six new wheelchairs are lined up near the entrance of the Beautiful Gate Handicapped People's Centre in the central Nigerian city of Jos.
Jul 22, 2015
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