Up to 80 percent of adults will experience one episode of acute low back pain (LBP) in their lifetime and many of those people will… Read more
Category: rehabilitation
Program for Spine Health: Finding a Solution to a Problem that doesn’t have a Fix
The goal of the UPMC Program for Spine Health, founded by Dr. Christopher Standaert, is to help patients with chronic back pain by avoiding a… Read more
UPMC’s Brain Injury Medicine Service Helps Patients Regain Their Lives
It was a regular day during Pittsburgh’s sweltering summer of 2017. Bill Norton was heading outside when he called his wife, Amy, to complain of… Read more
UPMC Launches COVID-19 Rehab Program in Italy
Modeled after a clinic UPMC developed in Pittsburgh, the Post-COVID 19 Rehabilitation Program in Italy will give patients in the Tuscany region individualized, integrated care… Read more
New Technology Promises to Restore Movement in Paralyzed Arms
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, Dr. Marco Capogrosso, assistant professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School… Read more