Stroke patients benefiting from touch screen computers

How long will it take to get this in the US? I'll say never unless the survivor provides the computer.
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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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