More articles about: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

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Philanthropy News

Giving with gratitude: planned gifts support nursing, research, and patient care

Retired businessman and Detroit Tigers fan Paul Hansen has created three planned gifts to support prostate cancer research, nursing scholarship support, and adult cerebral palsy research at Michigan Medicine.
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Health Lab

A smarter helmet for the smallest patients

U-M Health specialists invented a new design for cranial shaping helmets to improve treatment for positional head deformities like plagiocephaly.
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Health Lab

To reduce chronic pain, a new digital program could help

A new study tested a program called Promoting Resilience with Innovative Self-Management, which combines traditional cognitive behavioral therapy skills for pain with additional activities intended to promote resilience and positive emotion.
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Health Lab

Women missing cardiac rehabilitation, despite key benefits

Cardiac rehabilitation can significantly improve short and long term recovery, but attendance remains poor — with even fewer women utilizing the programs available says an American Heart Association scientific statement on cardiac rehabilitation in women.
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Health Lab

AI supports home-based balance training

Balance training patients may soon be able to get AI feedback during home exercises, with four wearable sensors and a new machine learning model developed at the University of Michigan.
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Health Lab

Triathlete’s prosthetic hand gets him back to living his best life

A bus accident left a triathlete unable to move his hand, leaving him with an extraordinary amount of pain that impacted his mental health. With help from Michigan Medicine, he received a prosthetic that’s changed his life for the better.
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Health Lab

Engaging Huntington disease patients in research

Huntington disease research can be challenging as it is difficult for patients to get to clinical research sites. This new device brings the research mechanisms to them with the ability to complete studies from home.
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Health Lab

For traumatic brain injury caregivers, a mobile health intervention that may improve quality of life

It is important for caregivers to take care of their personal needs and mental health to efficiently give care to others. University of Michigan Health researchers are using a new app to remind caregivers to check in with their own physical and mental wellbeing.
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Health Lab

Revolutionizing head injury care

A simple blood test is changing how emergency medicine operates.
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Health Lab

Helping traumatic brain injury patients recover through a team-based approach

A rehab specialist discusses how traumatic brain injury patients are supported through their recovery journey with a team-based approach, the short term and long term goals of rehabilitation, and more.
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Health Lab

Nine-year-old finds strength through adaptive accommodations

The physical medicine and rehabilitation team of Alexia Jambor has helped her and her family advocate for adaptive accommodations at school to benefit not only Alexia, but other differently abled children.
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Health Lab

Studying interventions to help type 2 diabetes patients avoid hospitalizations

Research from University of Michigan will be looking at the way social determinants of health can have an impact on the health of people living with type 2 diabetes.
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Health Lab

How do you treat rotator-cuff tears?

Rotator-cuff tears appear most in adults over the age of 40. These injuries are typically treated with physical therapy and surgical intervention as a last resort.
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Health Lab

Teen heads to college after complex journey with rare neuromuscular disease

A teenager shares her journey with spinal muscular atrophy and how she’s successfully headed off to college now.
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News Release

U-M Health ranked among nation’s best in more specialties than any other Michigan hospital by U.S. News & World Report

University of Michigan Health ranks among the nation’s best hospitals in more specialties than any other Michigan hospital, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals Rankings for 2024-2025.