Patients show modest yet meaningful gains in limb movement and an improved outlook on life years after suffering a stroke, a major clinical study has found. The paper, published online this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, provides the best evidence yet that stroke sufferers in a controlled study can regain limb movement long after an injury, through intensive therapy with specially trained personnel and newly created robotic aids.

Full Story: Clinical Study Shows Patients Gain Limb Movement Years After Stroke Source: Brown News Release, April 16th, 2010 Author: Brown University Added on April 22nd, 2010 at 12:19 pm, by Muse en Lystrala