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• Video game-based therapy helps stroke patients

  09-03-2022 22:55
  After a stroke, patients may lose feeling in an arm or experience weakness and reduced movement that limits their ability to complete basic daily activities. Traditional rehabilitation therapy is very intensive, time-consuming and can be both expensive and inconvenient, especially for rural patients travelling long distances to in-person therapy appointments. That's why a team of researchers utilized a motion-sensor video game, Recovery Rapids, to allow patients recovering from a stroke to impro
  
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• Residential childcare is crying out for a complete overhaul | Letters

  09-03-2022 18:40
  
  Readers respond to to an editorial about the rigorous regulations every care provider should be subjected to in the wake of the Bolton children’s home scandalI had involvement with residential childcare for over 40 years, from the early 1960s until I retired. While your editorial (6 March) is correct, it highlights issues that have been around since I started. Regularly, improvements and revisions made in children’s homes are overturned as the next round of spending cuts arrives. Fro
  
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• In pilot study, asynchronous telehealth visits effectively treat overactive bladder

  09-03-2022 16:44
  Women with overactive bladder are frequently frustrated with treatment, which leads to discontinuation of therapy. Asynchronous telehealth visits keep women engaged in follow-up care, accelerates trials of different medications and reinforces behavioral changes. The women in this pilot study reported improvement in symptoms and high satisfaction with asynchronous visits.
  
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