, /PRNewswire/ -- Hackensack Meridian JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute is researching a breakthrough aesculapian instrumentality that delivers electromagnetic therapy to the encephalon to accelerate healing aft a stroke.
JFK Johnson is 1 of 20 rehabilitation hospitals nationwide enrolling patients successful the EMAGINE Stroke Recovery Trial, which aims to heighten betterment and trim disablement aft neurologic harm caused by stroke. The wearable device, which tin beryllium utilized successful a infirmary setting, outpatient clinic, and astatine location would augment JFK Johnson's existing rehabilitation therapies.
"We're participating successful this innovative probe and different objective trials due to the fact that we're continually moving to maximize the betterment of our patients and beforehand the subject of changeable recovery," said Sara Cuccurullo, chair, vice president and aesculapian manager of JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute and main researcher of the study. "We privation each of our patients to scope their highest prime of life."
Dr. Cuccurullo is Professor, Chairman and Residency programme manager of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation astatine Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is besides Physician-in-chief of the Rehabilitation Care Transformation Service astatine Hackensack Meridian Health.
The wearable instrumentality was fixed breakthrough presumption by the FDA aft a aviator survey showed promise. The survey is funded by BrainQ, the exertion institution that developed the investigational device.
The instrumentality targets networks successful the encephalon with a low-intensity, frequency-tuned electromagnetic tract therapy. JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute is grooming rehabilitation specialists to usher patients and to bid caregivers to usage the device. The programme is implicit 45 hour-long sessions, 5 times each week, with play follow-up from a JFK Johnson rehabilitation specialist.
JFK Johnson treats astir 750 changeable patients each year.
"The patients we're talking to are funny and archer america they privation to bash immoderate they tin to retrieve arsenic afloat arsenic possible," said Maria Belen Montealegre, OTD, OT/L, CSRS, Occupational Therapy Supervisor and Site Coordinator of the objective trial.
Stroke is simply a starring origin of serious, semipermanent disability. Every 40 seconds, idiosyncratic successful the United States experiences a stroke, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Stroke tin beryllium devastating. Improving outcomes for radical recovering from changeable volition person tremendous interaction for individuals and their families arsenic good arsenic far-reaching interaction for our nation," said Hayk Petrosyan, Senior Research Scientist astatine JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute.
The EMAGINE proceedings volition enroll 150 randomized subjects nationwide wrong 4 to 21 days pursuing a stroke.
"We are excited to articulation forces with Hackensack Meridian JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute successful the EMAGINE study, which aims to unfastened the model for post-stroke betterment successful the subacute phase," said Yotam Drechsler, CEO of BrainQ. "JFK Johnson's dedication to excellence successful changeable attraction and probe is unparalleled and we look guardant to moving unneurotic to fundamentally alteration the outcomes for changeable survivors."
About Hackensack Meridian JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute:
Named 1 of the Top Rehabilitation Hospitals successful the Country by U.S. News and World Report, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute is simply a 94-bed installation successful Edison, New Jersey, that offers the state's astir broad rehabilitation services to reconstruct relation and prime of beingness to those with carnal impairments oregon disabilities. For astir 50 years, JFK Johnson has served children and adults successful the tri-state country — and has developed programs successful specialties specified arsenic encephalon injury, changeable rehabilitation, orthopedics/musculoskeletal and sports injuries, cardiac rehabilitation, pediatrics, and prosthetics and orthotics. JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute is portion of the Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, which besides includes Johnson Rehabilitation Institute astatine Ocean University Medical Center and Johnson Rehabilitation Institute astatine Riverview Medical Center. Each rehabilitation infirmary brings unneurotic highly specialized physicians and professionals with the extremity of "Advancing What's Possible" for each patient. The JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute besides partners with the St. Joseph's Health Acute Rehabilitation Unit astatine St. Joseph's Wayne Medical Center successful Wayne, New Jersey. JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute serves arsenic the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department of the Hackensack Meridian Medical School and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. To larn more, sojourn JFKJohnson.org.
ABOUT HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE (HMHRI):
HMHRI leads and organizes a connected ecosystem bringing unneurotic clinicians, scientists, and educators to respond to the wellness problems of our time, successful real-time. HMHRI is dedicated to accelerating discovery, innovation, and translation of technological breakthroughs that code unmet objective needs.
SOURCE Hackensack Meridian Health
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