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Potential for new technologies in clinical practice. Curr Opin Neurol. 2010 Oct 18; Authors: Burridge JH, Hughes AM PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Cost-effective neurorehabilitation is essential owing to financial constraints on healthcare resources. Technologies have the potential to contribute but without strong clinical evidence are unlikely to be widely reimbursed. This review presents evidence of new technologies since 2008 and identifies barriers to translation of technologies into clinical practice. RECENT FINDINGS: Technology has not been shown to be superior to intensively matched...

Disabled persons, quadriplegics and others suffering from paralysis may be able to regain movement with a sniff-activated sensor, according to a study by Israeli researchers . The technology works by translating changes in nasal air pressure into electrical signals that are passed to a computer. Patients can sniff in certain patterns to select letters or numbers to compose text, or on the...

Avatar - A multi-sensory system for real time body position monitoring. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009;1:2462-5 Authors: Jovanov E, Hanish N, Courson V, Stidham J, Stinson H, Webb C,...

Neurofeedback-based motor imagery training for brain-computer interface (BCI). J Neurosci Methods. 2009 Apr 30;179(1):150-6 Authors: Hwang HJ, Kwon K, Im CH In the present study, we...

Effect of Motor Imagery in the Rehabilitation of Burn Patients. J Burn Care Res. 2009 Jun 5; Authors: Guillot A, Lebon F, Vernay M, Girbon JP, Doyon J, Collet C Although there is ample...