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Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute collaboration with General Motors fuels patient recovery with driving simulator
1+ week, 5+ day ago (640+ words) A driver rehabilitation program initiated by occupational therapists now encompasses multiple disciplines. Speech-language pathologists explain how these groups came together — and how a donation from partners at General Motors has steered the program in the right direction. Changes in physical,…...
Patient Care Center structure changing for physical medicine and rehabilitation
2+ week, 4+ day ago (373+ words) The changes align with Vanderbilt Health’s strategic vision for growth, including regional expansion and the development of innovative rehabilitation and pain medicine services. A major change to how patient care is organized for physical medicine and rehabilitation patients is being…...
Earlier diagnosis of cerebral palsy signals progress in early detection efforts
3+ week, 4+ day ago (455+ words) Multistate study led in part by Vanderbilt Kennedy Center shows cerebral palsy in children is being identified sooner, opening doors for earlier intervention. Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is part of a five-state research group that recently released significant findings on the…...
New surgery for thumb arthritis offered at Vanderbilt Health
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (517+ words) Thumb carpometacarpal implant arthroplasty with Touch prosthesis is “like a small total hip replacement within the thumb joint.” Two Vanderbilt Health orthopaedic surgeons, Mihir Desai, MD, and Douglas Weikert, MD, recently performed the first thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) implant arthroplasty with…...
Clausyl (CJ) Plummer named medical director of Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (199+ words) The appointment of CJ Plummer, MD, marks a new chapter in Stallworth’s continued commitment to delivering high-quality rehabilitation care to patients across Tennessee and beyond. Clausyl (CJ) Plummer, MD, has been named medical director of Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital, effective…...
Sickle cell disease heightens risk for precancerous blood disorder
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (431+ words) These findings shed light on disruptions in normal blood cell development (hematopoiesis) that may be shared by sickle cell disease and clonal hematopoiesis. Children with sickle cell disease are more likely than other children to develop a clonal growth of…...
Those who recently started medication for opioid use disorder needed for study
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (186+ words) Evaluation of tirzepatide as an adjunct to buprenorphine (TAB) for the treatment of opioid use disorder is a pragmatic, multi-site, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. The study is examining the effects of an investigational use of tirzepatide (marketed as Monjouro and…...
New genetic marker found to predict severe gout drug reactions in US patients
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (273+ words) The discovery could improve safety of allopurinol for millions by expanding genetic screening. A newly identified genetic marker may significantly improve the ability to predict life-threatening reactions to the gout medication allopurinol in U.S. patients. “We are more comprehensively identifying that…...
Forgotten opioid has resurfaced as lethal street drug
10+ mon, 4+ day ago (568+ words) Nitazenes — a class of highly potent synthetic opioids — are rapidly emerging as a major contributor to the overdose crisis, according to a Pain Medicine review published today by authors from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh Medical…...