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| Thank you for your loyalty in 2022! |
The year 2022 is almost over. We are glad that you accompanied REHACARE.com through the year and maybe even visited the trade fair in Düsseldorf. We say THANK YOU and wish you a relaxing holiday season and a happy new year!
Your team from REHACARE.com
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| Review of the forum presentations at REHACARE |
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Exciting products and many presentations could be experienced at the expert forum PRODUCTS & NEWS @REHACARE and at the TREFFPUNKT REHACARE 2022. We have summarized what there was to discover in a review of the forums.
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| Messe Düsseldorf Shanghai: Wheelchair Basketball Campaign 2022 a major success |
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On December 2, 2022, Messe Düsseldorf (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Jinchang Public Welfare Service Center organized the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball Campaign at Shanghai Noble Center. On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the aim was to encourage people with disabilities to actively participate in sports and to create public awareness of social inclusion.
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| Kae Tran – That's how she rolls |
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Self-determined mobility is possible in Kae Tran's everyday life mainly through her walking stick. The aid has become her most important companion. What changes she would like to see in rollators and in society, what role mental health plays for her and how she rolls otherwise, she tells us on REHACARE.com.
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| FAU lands $1.2 million NSF grant to transform prosthetic hand control |
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A project at Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science aims to enable amputees to maximize their individual potential for controlling the full dexterity of artificial hands. The project combines artificial intelligence, machine learning, biosensors and automated training to transform the state-of-the-art for dexterous control of prosthetic hands.
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| Rehabilitation: Becoming mobile with virtual worlds and robotics |
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Above all, rehabilitation requires energy and motivation. Exhibitors at REHACARE 2022 want to achieve the latter with the help of virtual worlds and robotics. For example, the VR goggles from CUREosity GmbH offer exciting worlds of play, while Cyberdyne Care Robotics GmbH uses a robotic gait trainer for paraplegics and MS patients. Tyromotion GmbH also relies on robotics for its therapy devices.
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| EU's global health strategy includes persons with disabilities |
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In a position paper, the European Disability Forum (EDF) had urged the European Commission to focus on people with disabilities. Now the EDF welcomes the new "EU Global Health Strategy: Better Health for All in a Changing World", which among other intentions refers to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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| F. Sodermanns Automobile: Independent driving with amputations and without certain limbs |
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F. Sodermanns Automobile GmbH helps people without individual limbs and with amputations to drive independently using the latest technology and individual adaptations. With rahm Zentrum für Gesundheit GmbH, the company creates prostheses and orthoses using 3D scanning and 3D printing processes and adapts them to the driving aid.
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| Highlights of REHACARE 2022 |
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Up close and live on site: REHACARE, the world's largest trade fair for rehabilitation and care, showed what the assistive technology industry has to offer in terms of technological innovations with numerous new and proven products to touch and try out. Whether rehabilitation, care, mobility or occupational participation – the diversity of the industry was omnipresent.
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