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Results for: Movement Disorders
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Article ItemLarge doses of intensive therapy better for children with cerebral palsy, Virginia Tech scientists, partners find , article
The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, shows that higher doses of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy – 20 three-hour sessions over four weeks – yield significant and lasting improvement in use of their arms and hands, especially in everyday functional activities.
Date: Oct 14, 2021 -
Article ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute graduate student awarded NIH Fellowship to examine balance, walking in children with cerebral palsy , article
Hassan 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 -
Article ItemFralin Biomedical Research Institute, partners pioneer nation’s first pediatric rehabilitation resource center , article
Research 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 -
Article ItemNation’s first clinical trial for infant stroke begins at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC , article
Strokes 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 -
Article ItemNation’s first clinical trial for rehabilitating infant stroke victims to begin , article
Called 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 -
Article ItemVTCRI researcher, VTCSOM student team up to teach innovative treatment to Vietnamese therapists , article
The 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 -
Article ItemVTCRI researchers join forces to improve life for children with genetic disorder , article
The accomplishments of three girls who received intensive therapy based on innovative pediatric neurorehabilitation research at the VTCRI have been documented in a report published in BMC Research Notes.
Date: Mar 22, 2018