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Improve Balance After Stroke: Part 1

In today’s culture, it seems that we are always in search of the elusive life balance. But when a person survives a stroke, the word balance goes much further than simply finding an equilibrium between work and life.

Spasticity

Stroke Management

In the United States alone, more than 6.5 million people have experienced and lived through a stroke. More than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke every year, and our objective is to help those survivors and their families through providing resources, information, tools,

Electrical Stimulation

How Can Electrical Stimulation Help After a Stroke?

Electrical stimulation therapy consists of taking electrodes and attaching them on to the skin over a muscle. Once the electrical stimulation unit is activated, it sends electrical currents to the muscle causing it to contract.

Home Health Service

3 Things Most People Don’t Know About Home Health Services

Many people get discharged from an inpatient rehab setting and are told that they will receive home health services when they return home. However many people do not fully understand what home health entails, why they qualified and how long they are eligible for these services. What Services can Home

Stroke Recovery

How To Measure Stroke Recovery Properly

How to measure stroke recovery properly Consistent participation in rehabilitation can be hard to sustain, often because it is difficult for patients to notice progress as it is happening. Small changes are often unseen or overlooked as insignificant. Perceived lack of progress can lead to burnout and abandonment of rehab

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence(AI) Healthcare and Customized Rehabilitation

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare for Stroke Rehabilitation AI Healthcare is emerging as next-generation technology, bringing fundamental changes to one's lifestyle as well as to healthcare ecology through the change of healthcare paradigm, explosive data growth, and organic emergence of cutting edge technologies. Traditional healthcare was focused on curing a disease. However,

Stroke Rehab

5 Stages of Your Stroke Rehab Progress

Stroke recovery is going to be different for everyone based on their age, where the stroke occurred, what type of stroke they had as well as the stroke survivors health before the stroke. Based on how one is affected by the stroke will determine their stages of rehab. Not everyone

Rehabilitation Exercise

What are Good Exercises for Stroke Patient?

Can stroke patients exercise? Slowed motor function, poor physical strength, and cardiorespiratory function can occur due to physical paralysis and various complications of a stroke patient. These factors may detur a stroke patient from exercising. However, a moderate amount of exercise improves muscles and neural functions as well as cardio

Digital Rehab

3 Common Reasons Why Your Home Rehab Isn’t Working and How To Fix It

Often after a stroke or other neurological injury the recovery process can continue long after traditional rehab and therapy end. Hopefully once you or your loved one returns home you attempt to adhere to a home exercise program geared at maintaining and increasing strength and range of motion. Unfortunately, life

Recovery Calendar

Recovery Calendar: An Important Component of Stroke Recovery

Calendars are essential for just about anyone who wants to stay on track toward their goals . In order to ensure that we fit in all of the important “to-dos” and complete tasks essential to our well-being, writing it down and tracking our progress are often good strategies. You can also

Serious Game

Stroke Rehabilitation Exercise through Gaming

Neofect’s Neofect Smart Rehabilitation Solutions provides customizable training through the use of engaging games specifically developed for users recovering from medical episodes like stroke, brain injury or hemiplegia. Each game is scientifically designed to reinforce optimal neuroplastic recovery through muscle activation practice and the use of audiovisual feedback. The

Rehabilitation at Home

Why You Should Start In-Home Rehabilitation

Should I Start In-Home Rehabilitation? If you are involved in rehabilitation after an injury or illness, you likely know that starting rehab early and performing rehabilitation exercises often is the key to improving your recovery. In an ideal world, you would have the support of an occupational or physical therapist

User Reviews

The Road to Stroke Recovery with Neofect

Neofect Smart Rehabilitation Solutions provide rehabilitation and training through games for patients recovering from medical episodes like stroke. Now, do you want to know the real story of someone who’ve actually used Neofect solutions? The Road to Stroke Recovery with Neofect 1. Carol S. from Richmond, Virginia "I

Telehealth

Post Stroke Rehabilitation: What Does Telehealth Have to Do with It?

Post Stroke Rehabilitation: What Does Telehealth Have to Do With It? A recent study about post-stroke rehabilitation completed by the University of California, Irvine, reported that individuals who had experienced a stroke, saw as much improvement in their mobility through telerehabilitation sessions, those provided with coaching through video calls over

Digital Rehab

Smart Rehabilitation Training Games for Stroke at home

Neofect’s Neofect Smart Rehabilitation Solutions provide rehabilitation and training through games for patients recovering from stroke. Are you curious about the games? Let's take a closer look at three games available with the Neofect Smart Glove. Smart Rehabilitation Training Games <1> Jewel Pong Jewel Pong is a

Neuro Rehabilitation

Why Neuro-Rehabilitation is Necessary for Stroke Patients

Why Neuro-Rehab is Necessary after Stroke? Every Olympics season, spirits are high. We are enthusiastic about fierce matches and dramatic victories but at the same time we are also impressed by the amazing movements the world class athletes make. The body trained to the human limit and its motions themselves

Daily Rehabilitation

Stroke Rehabilitation Exercises at Home | Neofect Smart Rehab Solutions

Enjoy Stroke Rehab Exercises at Home with Neofect Smart Rehab Solutions Welcome to the Neofect Home blog. We are excited to use this space to share company news, product updates, and clinical information with you. Neofect is a maker of gamified rehabilitation training solutions and programs such as stroke rehabilitation

Daily Rehabilitation

Electrical Stimulation + Smart Glove Program Yields Promising Results

Electrical Stimulation + Smart Glove Program Yields Promising Results New research accepted for publication by the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, titled “Virtual Reality Rehabilitation with Functional Electrical Stimulation Improves UE Function After Stroke”, shows some nice improvement with the combination of the Smart Glove and electrical stimulation. Previously the

Mirror Neuron

Mirror Neurons And Stroke Rehabilitation Training

Mirror Neurons for stroke rehabilitation Have you ever experienced contagious yawning? There must have been a time when you saw someone yawning with his mouth open wide and unconsciously did the same. You may also have experienced your face mimicking the expressions or the slight muscle movements in the face

Digital Rehab

Using Games for Healthcare: A Focus on Stroke Rehab

Gamification means to offer enjoyment and increase voluntary participation by including factors such as amusement, reward, and competition into fields that are not related to games. Gamification is currently being applied in the healthcare area, assisting patients to remain healthy. Ways to Use Games for Healthcare Neofect, adding fun and

Stroke Prevention

7 Ideas to Lower YOUR Risk of Stroke

At Neofect, Stroke Awareness Month is important to us. The company and our mission to bring rehabilitation technology to people in their home environments to increase the intensity and enjoyment of the rehab process is based on personal experience. Read more about Hoyoung Ban’s personal story and the beginnings

Rehabilitation at Home

Stroke Rehabilitation is now Fun! Thanks to Neofect Smart Glove

What is Neofect Smart Glove? The Neofect Smart Glove is a biofeedback system that includes an exo-glove with built-in sensors and an artificial intelligence software to help patients with neurological and musculoskeletal injuries regain their hand mobility. Sensors embedded in the device transmit data wirelessly via Bluetooth, and the Neofect

Stroke Rehab

4 Fresh Ideas for Your Stroke Rehab Program

Stroke / Mild Stroke Rehab Can Be Boring But It Doesn’t Have To Be! Which would you rather do for your stroke / mild stroke recovery program? Early on in (mild) stroke recovery, it can be difficult to use the small amount of emerging movement a person has to engage in

Cognitive Rehabilitation

Cognitive Rehabilitation & Digital Stroke Therapy | Neofect's Cognition

Neofect's Cognition : Digital Cognitive Rehabilitaion Therapy Neofect, a medtech company that designs gamified rehabilitation training solutions for patients with neurological and musculoskeletal conditions, is bringing its digital cognitive rehabilitation therapy, Cognition, to the U.S. The software, which is already available in South Korea, enhances memory and response, and seeks

Rehabilitation at Home

Stroke Rehab at Home Every Day With Artificial Intelligence

Stroke Rehab at Home with AI You must be new to home rehabilitation! We’ll guide you through stroke rehabilitation training #AtHome! Q. What is home rehabilitation? Home rehabilitation refers to creating an environment for those that need rehabilitation, such as patients suffering from stroke, so that they would be