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| Heart Model Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash |
A professor at Ohio State University, Dr. Stephen Page has mentored 12 investigator teams and more than 60 clinician-investigators across several disciplines and institutions, from physical therapy to neuroscience. For his work, Dr. Stephen Page received the 2017 Outstanding Alumnus/Research Alumni Award from the Kessler Foundation and the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation.
A nonprofit organization committed to the field of disability, the Kessler Foundation recently announced it will join a phase II multi-site study that aims to treat hand function in individuals who have survived strokes. Utilizing a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the study will take place over 5 years and center on a new rehabilitation intervention called contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation (CCFES).
With CCFES, a patient who has lost mobility in a hand as the result of a stroke can gain more motor control by wearing a glove fitted with electronic sensors on their unaffected hand. The muscles of the affected hand are stimulated through surface electrodes by moving the unaffected hand. The study will feature 129 patients and compare the effectiveness of CCFES against two other treatments: traditional task-based training and cyclic neuromuscular electrical stimulation.
