Women would benefit from being prescribed exercise as medicine, according to a QUT study that revealed moderate to high intensity activity is essential to reducing the risk of death in older women. Professor Debra Anderson, from QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, said that in addition to conventional treatments for physical and mental health, […]

Patients recovering from stroke usually go through a number of stereotyped stages of “motor recovery”. Although initially flaccid and with no active movement, the limb later becomes stiff with tension in the muscles when the joints are moved passively. After this stage, active movement may return but patients may not be able to localize it […]