08 Dec2013

New Arthritis Treatment: Flexiseq, Drug-Free Gel, May Alleviate Joint Pain Without Side-Effects

(Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.com. ) Drug-free water-based gel treatment, Flexiseq, is found to alleviate joint pain and improve mobility in arthritis patients with no side-effects.

The days of joint pain and limited mobility may be numbered for osteoarthritis (OA) patients who go through the daily stress of coping with their condition. The UK’s Charity launch of a drug-free water-based gel, Flexiseq, aims to provide OA relief without the side effects associated with painkillers.

29 Nov2013

Clinical trial shows tongue-controlled wheelchair outperforms popular wheelchair navigation system

Posted in News, World

After a diving accident left Jason DiSanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to navigate life from a powered wheelchair, which he controls with a sip-and-puff system. Users sip or puff air into a straw mounted on their wheelchair to execute four basic commands that drive the chair. But results from a new clinical study offer hope that sip-and-puff users like DiSanto could gain a higher level of independence than offered by this common assistive technology. In the study, individuals with paralysis were able to use a tongue-controlled technology to access computers and execute commands for their wheelchairs at speeds that were significantly faster than those recorded in sip-and-puff wheelchairs, but with equal accuracy. This study is the first to show that the wireless and wearable Tongue Drive System outperforms sip-and-puff in controlling wheelchairs. Sip-and-puff is the most popular assistive technology for controlling a wheelchair.

New Arthritis Treatment: Flexiseq, Drug-Free Gel, May Alleviate Joint Pain Without Side-Effects

Clinical trial shows tongue-controlled wheelchair outperforms popular wheelchair navigation system

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