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Assistive Technologies has become established as a vital reference for healthcare professionals, experts and association businesses who have interests in assistive technologies and mobility improvement. 
 
The magazine brings the latest news, insights and product information to all clinicians, therapists and equipment suppliers with a professional interest in helping people with disabilities lead more mobile, independent lives. 
 
It covers the disciplines of rehabilitation, orthotics, prosthetics and orthopaedics as well as further treatment through associated specialists in fields such as occupational therapy, physiotherapy and mobility engineering.

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July 2009 | Study hope for stroke patients
THE findings of the first study to map the brain in order to track stroke rehabilitation were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. 
Previously, it was believed that there was only a short window of three to six months following a stroke when rehabilitation could make an improvement. 
'We have shown that the brain has the ability to regain function through rehabilitative exercises following a stroke,' said Aria Tzika, director of the NMR surgical laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Burn Institute and assistant professor in the department of surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
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