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Supplying the Demand: Products for Highly Productive Physical and Occupational Therapists Physical and occupational therapy are two specialties on the rise. With the first Baby Boomers reaching age 60 this year, the resulting increase in middle-aged and elderly people requiring therapy services at some point in their lives makes these healthcare specialties even more important….

This article was first published at the Newsweek blog on September 4th, 2007. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but wasting your brain is just as bad. Nature seems to realize that, for when people are blind from birth or a young age because of damage to their eyes, the part of the...

This article was originally published by AM New York by Delthia Ricks on May 25, 2007. Patients with limited vision may be helped with an unusual computer program that uses “tiny points of light” to stimulate the brain and partially restore eyesight lost to strokes and other forms of trauma. For patients, the painless 40-…

This article was first published in Medical Device Daily VOL. 10, NO. 68 on April 10th, 2006. Researchers at the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN; St. Paul, Minnesota) 58th annual meeting reported positive results from the largest retrospective study conducted to date of stroke and brain trauma patients seeking improvement of vision impairment with NovaVision’s…

This article appeared first on Wall Street Journal Magazine on Feb 1st 2005. A PROMISING THERAPY is offering hope to patients who have been left partially blind by a stroke. The approach is predicated on a revolution sweeping the field of neurobiology: the discovery that the adult brain isn’t fixed and immutable as once thought,…