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Results for: Cerebral Palsy
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute occupational therapists train colleagues, treat children in Morocco clinic , articleKelsey Burke and Megan Price, occupational therapists in the Neuromotor Research Clinic at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, took a personal volunteer trip to Morocco with a humanitarian group last year. They educated therapists and parents in pediatric therapy techniques.
Date: Mar 02, 2022 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute graduate student awarded NIH Fellowship to examine balance, walking in children with cerebral palsy , articleHassan Farah, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student, has been awarded a $98,000 National Institutes of Health grant that will fund his remaining predoctoral research. Farah is studying the limb biomechanics, joint movements, and loading in children with cerebral palsy.
Date: Feb 01, 2021 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, partners pioneer nation’s first pediatric rehabilitation resource center , articleResearch partners across three institutions are opening the nation’s first and only resource center, known as C-PROGRESS, dedicated to promoting clinical trials research in the rapidly expanding field of pediatric rehabilitation.
Date: Jul 21, 2020 -
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Nation’s first clinical trial for infant stroke begins at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC , articleStrokes are devastating events often associated with people over 65. But large numbers of infants have strokes, too. Now, in the nation’s first multicenter pediatric stroke recovery trial, researchers and clinicians from 12 sites across the United States, including the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will evaluate a new approach.=https://video.vt.edu/media/Nation%E2%80%99s+first+clinical+trial+for+infant+stroke+begins+at+Fralin+Biomedical/1_gs5rr4b0
Date: Mar 27, 2019 -
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Nation’s first clinical trial for rehabilitating infant stroke victims to begin , articleCalled I-ACQUIRE, the Phase III clinic trial will examine the effectiveness of a pediatric therapy to increase upper extremity skills, gross motor development, and cognition in 240 children nationwide who experienced strokes when they were under 4 weeks old.
Date: Mar 25, 2019 -
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VTCRI researcher, VTCSOM student team up to teach innovative treatment to Vietnamese therapists , articleThe therapy is based on studies of the effects of prolonged disuse by parts of the brain that may occur as a result of cerebral palsy or after stroke.
Date: Jun 06, 2018