We were excited and honored when the administration at Northeastern University asked us to help judge its RISE:2013 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo. The event, held at the physical education ...

The Microsoft Kinect may be more or less defunct when it comes to gaming, but it’s getting a second life as a medical device. Reflexion Health uses it as part of the kit it delivers to rehabilitation ...

The numbers on the incidence of strokes are pretty scary. In the United States, stroke is the third leading cause of death. Each year about 140,000 people will die from a stroke. About 795,000 people ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion tracking system has served up some great experiences for gamers, but the technology behind it has also given rise to innovations that are transforming lives. As you may have ...

Kinect aids in improving mobility and rehabilitating stroke patients Kinect’s finding its way into more and more areas of research as a comparatively cheap way to create 3D images. Increasingly, ...

Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital is using gaming systems to rehabilitate their patients. They have several Nintendo Wii systems and a Kinect for Xbox. It’s a unique way they’re using technology to ...

Add stroke survivors to the growing list of patients taking advantage of Microsoft's Xbox Kinect technology to improve their health. A new algorithm-based process developed by researchers at the ...

Bright minds at the West Health Institute in San Diego have developed a technology that allows patients in need of physical therapy to perform necessary exercises away from their doctors expert ...