Clinical News - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

March 2012

New patient-centric sexual health video available

Sexual health education after spinal cord injury is a vital component in promoting sexual well-being. That's why patient focus groups joined Mayo Clinic rehabilitation professionals to help produce a video titled "Feeling Your Way: Relationships and Sexuality After Spinal Cord Injury." Read more.

New facility provides expertise and infrastructure for clinical research

Rehabilitation professionals appreciate the importance of optimizing physical function and mobility in the face of aging and disease. The Muscle Performance and Physical Function Core helps investigators examine the impact of traits and interventions on meaningful metrics of health span. Read more.

February 2012

Lab assesses relevant measures of health and aging in mice to accelerate research translation to practice

The Healthspan Assessment Laboratory's Comprehensive Laboratory Animal Monitoring System explores the impact of novel therapies for disease in mice on outcome measures, such as strength, endurance and mobility, that concern patients. Read more.

January 2012

Healthy Aging and Independent Living Lab supports aging in place

The HAIL Lab helps seniors remain at home, healthy and independent, by providing a place for designing, prototyping, and piloting new services and technologies, with voluntary participation from Charter House retirement community residents. Read more.

December 2011

Physician Update-PM&R features video interviews with leaders and researchers in physical medicine and rehabilitation

In one-on-one interviews, leaders and researchers from the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Mayo Clinic articulate their visions for the future of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Read more and view video interviews.

A closer look at therapeutic exercise for patients with advanced cancer

Mayo researchers recently studied the benefits and feasibility of delivering a physical therapy-based exercise program as an integrated part of a multidisciplinary intervention for outpatients receiving radiation therapy for advanced cancer. Read more.

Mayo surgeons hope to complete first hand transplant sometime in 2011

Mayo's new Hand Transplant Program in Rochester, Minn., can make a dramatic difference in the day-to-day lives of people with severe hand injuries or amputation of both hands. Read more.

Diaphragmatic pacing system provides greater independence for spinal cord injury patients

Mayo Clinic is one of a handful of centers offering an implantable diaphragmatic pacing device to selected patients with high cervical SCI who currently require ventilator support for breathing. Read more.

Patients and families provide extensive guidance for inpatient rehabilitation unit renovation

Located at Saint Marys Hospital, one of Mayo Clinic's hospitals in Rochester, Minn., the inpatient rehabilitation unit is completing a major renovation in 2011 that facilitates and supports a variety of innovative treatment strategies and patient-focused amenities. Read more.

Mayo researchers test telehealth-based cognitive rehabilitation for patients with TBI

Recent research suggests that cognitive rehabilitation can help improve functioning and diminish disability in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Technological advances have helped make telehealth-based services more viable. Read more.