"It is a great art to saunter." #Thoreau #Quote
— Henry David Thoreau (@ThoreauPage) April 6, 2014
This has meaning on more than one level for a stroke patient who had to learn to walk again as an adult.
"It is a great art to saunter." #Thoreau #Quote
— Henry David Thoreau (@ThoreauPage) April 6, 2014
How touchscreen technology from a #smartphone can help your doctor measure how you’re moving after a #stroke, http://t.co/E8cI6kPI8z
— Natl Stroke Assoc (@natlstrokeassoc) March 12, 2014
Not the first time we've reported on the benefits of music.
Music brings memories back to the brain injured http://t.co/G0gheknYbG
— BrainSong (@BrainSongMJF) February 14, 2014
The concluding stanzas of What the Heart Cannot Forget by Joyce Sutphen. In a decidedly unpoetic way, the image reminds me of the way my body feels when someone helps me exercise long unused muscles.
And the skin remembers its scars, and the bone aches
where it was broken. The feet remember the dance,
and the arms remember lifting up the child.
The heart remembers everything it loved and gave away,
everything it lost and found again, and everyone
it loved, the heart cannot forget.
Fast Company reports on the winners of this year's Dyson Award. This is a pretty impressive device, offering a 20-degree improvement in range of motion. I'm puzzled that the target audience seems to be hospitals. I'd do the therapy if a device like this was available to me. Seems to me that the real benefit would come from using it in real-life situations, not just short therapy sessions. It's noteworthy that this device streams data to computers and smartphones, but the anticipated users seem to be only clinicians. I wish more data was made available to users too.