> In what amounts to a fairly shocking reminder of how quickly our technologies are advancing and how deeply our lives are being woven with networked computation, security researchers have recently reported successes in remotely compromising and controlling two different medical implant devices. Such implanted devices are becoming more and…
> Thanks to the burgeoning power of technology, a series of bionic devices my turn society’s disabled population into a generation of super-humans. That sounds far-fetched, but when brain implants combine instant neural communication with superior prosthetics, the performance of the human body will be easily augmented. “The sudden…
> “The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” Chinese Proverb via @FredericBrussat Never struck me until I saw it today, but this is a great thought for rehab.…
> Dr Baird — who is now conducting the same study with a larger group of brain-injured patients — said her research had shown the potential for music to help restore personal memories in that group. > "It’s something that we know very well in everyday life — we all put…
> It’s no fun recovering from a stroke and relearning to do simple things that were once totally natural. That’s being offset by new video games that refine patients motor skills by having them play games that, for once, actually look fun. It may not be fun—that’…
The PBS News Hour reports on technology that lets people control motion with their thoughts. The look of satisfaction on Cathy Hutchinson’s face after she has served herself coffee for the first time in fifteen years is one to treasure.…
> He appears to embrace Edmund Wilson’s argument in “The Wound and the Bow” that “superior strength” is “inseparable from disability” and disaster of various kinds. A review of Lives of the Novelists contains this gem, which should launch me on a study of Wilson. I firmly believe and…
Seen in rehab—a vendor’s motto sums up the rehab experience: No Plateau in Sight . I was also interested that I used the iPhone’s voice recorder during today’s session to record prompts from my therapist for home exercises.…