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The oceans are getting warmer, and hurricanes are getting more intense as a result. |
Myomo yesterday released results from an investigator-led study of its MyoPro myoelectric orthotic, touting reduced upper extremity impairment with the use of the device. |
Cambridge, Mass.-based Myomo develops and produces myoelectric orthotics for patients with neuromuscular disorders, including its flagship MyoPro line. The orthosis devices are non-invasive, powered braces used to support weak or deformed arms and hands to allow for functional activity. |
The study, conducted at the Ohio State University School of Medicine, was published in the journal the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. |
In the study, researchers examined the use of the MyoPro on 18 chronic stroke patients with moderate post-stroke upper extremity hemiparesis. Subjects were tested to evaluate the degree of impairment without the MyoPro and compare it with impairment while wearing the device. |
Results from the study indicated that the use of the MyoPro orthotic significantly reduced upper extremity impairment, with changes in functionality exceeding the clinically important difference threshold of standard impairment tests. |
“The results show a clinically significant instantaneous reduction in arm and hand impairment and statistically significant improvements in a range of functional tasks and significant increases in ability for feeding and drinking. The subjects showed significant decreases in time taken to grasp a cup and increased gros... |
The company said that the trial is the 1st of several for the device, with more underway and expected publications in the future. |
“What we found was across the board with these 18 subjects, when they wore the MyoPro, their outcomes, their movements, were significantly better while they were wearing the MyoPro,” Dr. Steven Page of the Ohio State University College of Medicine Stroke Center said in a press release. |
“This study is an important milestone supporting Myomo’s growing commercialization efforts. It clearly demonstrates the functional value of the MyoPro orthosis and how it meets a medical necessity. It provides useful information for clinicians who recommend and prescribe the device, as well as for payers. This is the f... |
Earlier this month, Myomo said it launched its next-generation MyoPro 2 myoelectric arm orthosis designed to restore function to paralyzed or weakened arms. |
The MyoPro 2 is designed to aid patients in performing daily living activities including eating, carrying objects and general household chores, as well as enabling certain individuals to return to work. The company said that the new version improves upon previous capabilities and adds interchangeable, extended-life rec... |
West Hartford Art League Executive Director Roxanne Stachelek recently put a call out to art league members for ideas on new group exhibit ideas. |
Two of those exhibits will open in February and run concurrently at the art league’s two galleries. |
One, called Seven Sisters Sewing, is made up of a group of female artists who called themselves “sewistas” and who have turned sewing into art. |
“These are not your grandmother’s quilts,” Stachelek said. |
The artists include Diane Cadrain, Linda Martin, Judy Ross, Marlene Shea, Anna Tufankjian, Susan Vassallo, and Carol Vinick. The group formed as they are all art league members and also members of Studio Art Quilt Associates and Women Against the Grain. |
As a group of collective artists, they inspire each other with their own work and art techniques. |
“I’m always amazed at the work that I see," Martin said. |
“Everyone has a surprising range of work they’ve done,” Tufankjian said. |
The Seven Sisters Sewing exhibit will be held in the Saltbox Gallery through Feb. 24. |
In the art league’s Clubhouse Gallery up the hill, things will be different than they are in the Saltbox Gallery. Abstract artists Sandra Baker of South Windsor, Cynthia Cooper of Farmington, and Joan Jardine of Sharon will present their very different takes on abstract art. |
The artists met through the world of artists by encountering each other at different art shows across Connecticut. |
Baker said they are each excited to bring their works together for the show. |
The Abstraction show will also run through Feb. 24. |
Washington, DC - “The notion of ‘court packing’ by adding more than the nine Justices already on the Court, might appear to have gained momentum among Democrats as a means of avenging the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. But, it is likely a far fetched notion,” according to Dan Weber, president of ... |
Professors of law have been touting the idea. In fact, University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds proposed the size of the court be increased to 59. In an opinion article in USA Today, he suggested the nine justices already seated on the High Court should be joined by one more from each of the 50 state... |
It should be noted that the U.S. Constitution established the Supreme Court, but it did not specify a set number of justices, leaving it up to Congress to do that. The Judiciary Act of 1789 specified that there be six justices, but that number was increased to seven in 1807 and increased yet again to nine in 1837. |
Thus, Congress has the power to increase the number of justices at its will. President Roosevelt tried to raise the number to 15 in 1937. However, he could not convince his Congress to go for his plan. |
“Indiana University law professor Ian Samuels recently proposed getting pay-back for Kavanaugh by raising the number of justices on the Supreme Court to 15 when Democrats regain Congress and the Presidency. As Samuels put it: ‘Pack the courts should be a phrase on par with abolish ICE … a half-dozen well-qualified youn... |
Urgent opportunities have arisen to work within the TV/Film/Media sector in a support function as a Team Assistant/PA to work with directors and VP's in a creative environment. |
Role involves: screening emails, answering departmental calls, assisting with presentation material,occasional project work, arranging diary and travel as well as expense management. |
Chosen candidates will need to have a minimum of two years experience from a similar creative environment, with good communication and organisation skills. |
The roles are temp to perm so it would suit someone who is available immediately and can commit to a longer term assignments such as maternity cover and temp to perm. |
Resident David C. Wilcox is clearly worried about President Obama but presents a tepid rationale for the existential threat to liberty that the Obama Administration evidently poses [“Terrified of another term for Obama,” Mailbag, April 5]. Yes, the deficit is a problem. Under President Bush, Republicans aggressively re... |
When the Great Recession hit at the end of the Bush Administration, short-term stimulus spending was required to keep the economy from a depression, further elevating deficits. But let me get this straight: When a Democrat cannot immediately turn the tide against nearly a decade of irresponsible Republican fiscal polic... |
We should also remember that the use of an individual mandate for healthcare was a Republican idea, championed by the Heritage Foundation and advanced by Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney. It was proposed by Bob Dole as an alternative to “Hillary Care” in the mid 1990s. In short, the centerpiece of The Affordable Care Act ... |
There are too many problems with Wilcox's analysis of various “great thinkers” to easily dissect, so I'll leave that for another day (does he seriously equate John Locke to Ayn Rand?), However, I would argue that the ruling from the Supreme Court that corporations have the same free expression rights as U.S. citizens c... |
Do please check your workshops: and sheds and make sure both are safe as can be from the burglars. A workshop in Levetts Lane was broken into. Keep an eye out for strangers in Bodiam and tell the police. You pay for our police so tell them. |
A number of people come to Bodiam: and sometimes would like to stay in a B&B. Elms Farm, Bodiam, is open all year round. There is plenty of parking an d a full English breakfast. Call 02580 830494. There is also Park Farm Caravan Site at Junction Road, Bodiam 01580 831982. |
There was an article: in a local village magazine about Mr Herbert Bodle, from the village, who cycled every day from the village for 23 years, as a blacksmith to a forge that was run by Fred Ades, that now looks very exposed to the wind and rain. If anyone would like a copy of the article, please let me know. |
My thanks to Bill Dawson: for news of Mary Macey, who has died in Hawkhurst Community Hospital. Mary was 89 and was for many years part of the Guinness hop farms. Sadly the numbers are declining but perhaps the ones who are left can provide lots of happy memories.. My sincere condolences to the family and friends of Ma... |
The Bodiam Parish Assembly: will take p;lace on March 21 at Bodiam Church of England Primary School hall, with a small buffet available from 7pm. The meeting will start at 7.30pm. The Parish Council will report on the work of the past year and reports have also been invited from many groups in the village and around. |
February 19: will be a big day for me, I will be 70 and I still get around so my door at 13 Levetts Lane will be open for cards and presents. I will not be celebrating how old I am , but how young I look. |
Prince William and his wife Catherine gathered close friends and family on Wednesday for the christening of their baby son Prince George, in a low-key ceremony at Chapel Royal in St James’s Palace in central London. |
prince george is as to relevance as a fish to a bicycle- please report on news of import? please? |
remember king george? they gave this bozo a bad name awreddy!!!!!!!!!! |
The teen who organized a bike ride of over a 100 kids, teens, and adults along I-676 last month in celebration of his birthday has been sentenced to probation. The now 17-years-old prominent Philadelphia BMX rider, "One Way" Corey Murray, used his prolific Instagram account to invite riders to join a rideout on April 2... |
Four Philadelphia eighth grade students and one teacher remain in the hospital on Tuesday following a charter bus crash on I-95 in Maryland on Monday morning. The bus was carrying 30 people, 26 of whom were students, from the Charles W. Henry School in Mount Airy to Washington D.C. for a class field trip. The bus was c... |
Authorities have ruled that arson was the cause of a fire that destroyed a two-story home and several nearby parked cars in New Jersey early this morning. It happened around 4:30 a.m. on the 400 block of Hamilton Road in Glassboro, NJ. The Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said that investigators determined the fir... |
Watch on #Periscope: Fire with entrapment glassboro nj https://t.co/4hF9Veql6F. @SDNVtv one for you to watch from me. |
Oh Hex, it's nice not to be worried about Battlefront, because I think if anyone can get it right, it's DICE. |
Definitely. Well, game premises don't get much more straightforward than Rocket League. It's like soccer - but with cars instead of people. |
It's not really a thinker is it? |
No - but it is a lot of fun. Behold the madness! |
Rocket League was released recently on PS4 and PC and it's a game which is focused on multiplayer fun. We reviewed it on our other show, Spawn Point, but we wanted to talk about it here as well because it's snowballed into a bit of an office obsession. |
Yeah - especially Goose and NichBoy. |
Yes, they will not stop going on about it. So we thought we'd challenge them to a good old fashioned Good Game game-off! |
Yes, and this is what happened. |
I think they've both had a bit more practice than us actually. |
I know f r a fact that Goose has been smashing this game until 2am most nights this week. So I think he's going to be pretty good. |
Boost, boost, boost, boost, boost! |
No it's coming towards the goal! NO! |
We got this! We got this! WE GOT THIS! |
It's heading back toward the goal! |
It's so strange cause we can hear them in the other room screaming, but it's like this distant screams of pain. |
YES I KNOCKED IT, I SAVED IT! I SAVED IT! |
Alright, making our way downtown. Here we go. Go the team. GO! YES! |
They guided that in quite well. |
Good score Nichboy, that was really good. |
Yeah, I'm really damp sorry. |
Oh, look at that nice little jump, he did a little jump to knock it in. |
He's doing like acrobatics and stuff. Whatever. |
Go play other games Goose! |
We've got it, we've got it, we've got it, I missed it. OH, who made me blow up?! |
I enjoy hearing their cries of anguish from the other room. |
Centred. I'm going to try a backflip! It didn't work. I'm going to try my wall trick! Up the wall! Flips out! |
Alright, all of your constant commentating is really distracting. |
No it's you! It's us! YES! |
Rematch? Oh, it's you. NO! |
Alright, here we go - rematch. Round two. |
Who's going for it. You are! |
Oh, we did not plan that well. |
No no no! I'm out of boost! Look at the flips he's doing! Show off. Alright, we're going to do some flips. |
OH THIS COULD BE MY GREATEST MOMENT OF ALL TIME! NO! |
Alright, we're going to do some sick dribbling Hex. Just doing some sick dribbling and it's in. No it's not. |
You've had so many close calls! |
Are you driving backwards? That looks awesome! |
Yeah, it's like the Italian job! GO GO GO! I've got it, I've got it, I've got it! YES! |
Oh, this is the worst! |
It feels good to be good at a fake sport. |
Here we go Hex, it's happening! OH NOTHING HAS EVER FELT SO GOOD! |
Look at the team work! Knocked Goose out of the way! INTO THE NET! |
You actually knocked him into the wall! |
OOOOOOH YES! GET IN THERE! IT GOT IN! |
It's even now so it's exciting. |
Oh no! No no no no! |
Alright, this is where it's not funny anymore. |
I'm taking that ball home! |
IT'S GOING! IT'S GOING! YES! I will clear the goal! Did the wall just move? |
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