How long will it take to get this in the US? I'll say never unless the survivor provides the computer.
http://www.mediplacements.com/article-801600062-stroke_patients_benefiting.html
Strokes are a major threat to a person's health and are highly prevalent
in the UK but a speech therapy team is using new technology to help
patients recover from this condition.
Amersham Hospital, which is
based in south Buckinghamshire, is a specialist facility for treating
those people that have suffered a stroke, are pioneering new touch
screen computers which assist patients in getting back on the road to
recovery. Bucks Free Press reported that the devices are seen as life
changing tools for people that have suffered a stroke and had their
speech and motor functions impaired in the process.
NHS
Buckinghamshire allows the patients to take the devices to use in their
own homes, and has become become the first healthcare trust to allow
this kind of service. Staff believe that it can have substantial
benefits and means that the person in question does not have to make
constant visits to hospital.
The devices are equipped with
specialist software that provides a series of exercises which helps to
aid the recovery of a patient that has recently had a stroke. It has
been developed to assist those who have had their speech and motor
functions impaired by their condition.
Julia Parsons, a speech
language therapist, told the news provider: "There's evidence that
suggests that people having speech therapy benefit more when they have
it intensively half hour every day. As a speech therapy team we can't
provide that can kind of intensive therapy.
"The aim of the
computer is for patients to have that at home in their own time. We can
set up the computers to make it very specific to each patient, to their
own needs."
Strokes are a major killer in England with figures
from the NHS showing that over 150,000 people are affected by the
condition everyyear. It is the third largest cause of death across the
country behind heart disease and cancer and even if it does not kill the
patient it can leave them with life-changing ailments.
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A stroke facility can't provide one half hour of intensive speech therapy? That's scary. It's a good thing they came up with an alternative.
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