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Former England defender Steve Howey has revealed he tries not to think about the impact heading during his career may have had on his life, in light of shocking and increasing links with neurodegenerative disease. 

The best neuro care and rehabilitation depends upon expert clinicians working together as one team, with one common goal to improve people’s care and quality of life. Here, we learn how Elysium Neurological’s EveryExpert approach to neuro care and rehabilitation is helping to achieve positive outcomes for the individuals they support.

A study of more than 100,000 people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) has found that insulin resistance is associated with stroke. The higher the insulin resistance, the greater the risk of stroke, the research, from Dr Alexander Zabala and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute and researchers at Gothenburg University and the National Diabetes Registry in [...]

The first-ever adult football match to restrict the use of heading has been held to raise awareness of the dangers of headers in football, prompting discussion and debate over the issue internationally. 

A robotic rehab device hailed as being instrumental in changing the future of neurorehabilitation has been unveiled to the world by Fourier Intelligence, after more than two years in development.  The ArmMotus™ EMU is the world’s first 3D back-drivable upper limb rehabilitation robot, setting a new benchmark for intelligent rehabilitation devices.  The robot, the latest [...]

Professional sportspeople were today urged to play their role in making sport safer as a pioneering project was announced with the aim of preventing new cases of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) within five years and of finding a cure by 2040. 

The optimal period for the start of intensive rehabilitation of arm and hand use after a stroke is 60 to 90 days after the event. That is according to the finding of a new phase II, randomised clinical trial. The same intensive rehabilitation at less than 30 days after a stroke provided some benefit, the [...]

Traumatic experiences, including sexual violence, could be linked to dementia, stroke and other brain disorders in women, new research has indicated.

Co-founder and global hub CEO of Fourier Intelligence, Zen Koh, has been appointed as global chair of the health and wellness efforts of an organisation whose mission is to create a better world through reinventing industries and rebooting societies. 

GripAble, the digital mobile assessment and rehab tech platform, can increase the amount of arm exercises stroke patients do without professional supervision eightfold, according to a new study. More than five million people in the UK live with arm weakness, with stroke damage accounting for one million of those people. The only intervention shown to [...]