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Engineering the Future of Restorative Clinical Peripheral Nerve Surgery

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
What if damaged nerves could regenerate more effectively? This review unveils cutting‐edge strategies to restore nerve function, from biomaterial scaffolds and bioactive molecules to living engineered tissues. By accelerating axonal regrowth, preserving Schwann cells, and enhancing connectivity, these approaches are reshaping nerve repair—offering new ...
Justin C. Burrell, Zarina S. Ali, Eric L. Zager, Joseph M. Rosen, Mykhailo M. Tatarchuk, D. Kacy Cullen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Ultrasound Power Transfer: Efficiency, Acoustics, and Future Directions

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Implantable devices significantly enhance healthcare but are limited by battery life. Ultrasound power transfer technology offers a promising solution for sustainable operation. This review addresses gaps in current research, particularly in sound field analysis and energy efficiency optimization.
Yi Zheng, Zhuomin Zhang, Yanhu Zhang, Qiqi Pan, Xiaodong Yan, Xuemu Li, Zhengbao Yang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Bio‐Inspired Perspective on Materials Sustainability

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective discusses natural materials as inspiration for sustainable engineering designs and the processing of materials. First, circularity, longevity, parsimony, and activity are presented as essential material paradigms. The perspective then uses many examples of natural and technical materials to introduce principles such as oligo ...
Wolfgang Wagermaier, Khashayar Razghandi, Peter Fratzl   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Photonic Materials and Integrated Devices for Smart and Digital Healthcare: Bridging the Gap Between Materials and Systems

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This article summarizes significant technological advancements in materials, photonic devices, and bio‐interfaced systems, which demonstrate successful applications for impacting human healthcare via improved therapies, advanced diagnostics, and on‐skin health monitoring.
Seunghyeb Ban, Hoon Yi, Jaejin Park, Yunuo Huang, Ki Jun Yu, Woon‐Hong Yeo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automatic Temporal Segmentation for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: A Keypoint Detection and Temporal Segmentation Approach for Small Datasets [PDF]

arXiv
Rehabilitation is essential and critical for post-stroke patients, addressing both physical and cognitive aspects. Stroke predominantly affects older adults, with 75% of cases occurring in individuals aged 65 and older, underscoring the urgent need for tailored rehabilitation strategies in aging populations. Despite the critical role therapists play in
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Transforming Healthcare: Intelligent Wearable Sensors Empowered by Smart Materials and Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Wearable sensors, empowered by AI and smart materials, revolutionize healthcare by enabling intelligent disease diagnosis, personalized therapy, and seamless health monitoring without disrupting daily life. This review explores cutting‐edge advancements in smart materials and AI‐driven technologies that empower wearable sensors for diagnostics and ...
Shuwen Chen, Shicheng Fan, Zheng Qiao, Zixiong Wu, Baobao Lin, Zhijie Li, Michael A. Riegler, Matthew Yu Heng Wong, Arve Opheim, Olga Korostynska, Kaare Magne Nielsen, Thomas Glott, Anne Catrine T. Martinsen, Vibeke H. Telle‐Hansen, Chwee Teck Lim   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Practice of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in subSaharan Africa and Antarctica: A White Paper or a Black Mark? [PDF]

, 2009
Andrew J. Haig, Jonathan Im, Ayodeji Adewole, Virgina S. Nelson, Brian J. Krabak   +4 more
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Ultra‐Flexible µ‐ECoG Arrays Based on PEDOT:PSS Micropillars

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This work demonstrates an efficient procedure for fabricating ultra‐flexible neural interfaces endowed with micropatterned microelectrodes to increase surface area and characterized by extremely low impedance values to enable high‐quality recordings. The home‐built device has been shown to record somatosensory evoked potentials in vivo with exceptional
Alice Lunghi, Michele Bianchi, Pierpaolo Greco, Riccardo Viaro, Michele Di Lauro, Luciano Fadiga, Fabio Biscarini   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The prognostic value of clinical frailty scale and outcomes in older patients undergoing left ventricular assist device implantation

AGING MEDICINE, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 257-263, December 2022., 2022
The main finding in our study is that Clinical Frailty Scale‐defined frailty status was predictive of 1‐year post‐interventional mortality after left ventricular assist device implantation. Abstract Objectives Heart failure impacts patients’ functional capabilities, ultimately leading to frailty.
Temitope Ajibawo, Priyank Chauhan, Radha S. Gopalan, Nimit K. Agarwal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE USE OF OUTCOME MEASURES IN PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION WITHIN EUROPE

, 2001
Rachel Haigh, Alan Tennant, Fin Biering‐Sørensen, G Grimby, Črt Marinček, Suzanne Phillips, Haim Ring, Luigi Tesio, Jean‐Louis Thonnard   +8 more
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