The lady who dropped her foot

Ali Kosh Lady and her Artificially Modified Head: An Appraisal

We had the opportunity to examine the cranium of a young woman found at the well-known Neolithic site of Ali Koshon the Deh Luran plain in southwestern Iran. It has previously been claimed that her head shows traces of modification,a practice which can be termed as either cultural or artificial cranial modification. Here, we describe several macroscopiccharacteristics of the modified crania and...

Economic Justification for the Odstock Dropped Foot Stimulator (ODFS)

The ODFS is a mobility aid designed to correct dropped foot following stroke, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and other upper motor neurone conditions. The device uses small pulses of electrical stimulation applied to the common peroneal nerve using self adhesive skin surface electrodes to elicit dorsiflexion and eversion. This is timed to the gait cycle using a pressure sensitive foot s...

The Lady and Her Scribes: Dealing with the Multiple Dunhuang Copies of Wei Zhuang’s “Lament of the Lady of Qin”

Like medieval European literature, written poetry in Tang-dynasty .China was always produced, and almost always circulated and received, by means of handwritten manuscripts. Yet while scholars of medieval European literature have devoted considerable attention to the issues at stake when approaching texts produced before the age of print, research on Tang poetry, whether in Asia or the West, ha...

Who dropped the ball on L-DOPA? A patient's lament.

How’s the war on Parkinson’s disease going? That depends on whether you’re a researcher, clinician, or patient. Researchers can claim that they are making spectacular progress in understanding the disease. Clinicians can argue that they manage the symptoms better than at any time in history. If you’re a patient like me, however, then the honest truth is that the war isn’t going very well. The H...

The Case for the Odstock Dropped Foot Stimulator (ODFS®) A summary of the published evidence for the Odstock Dropped Foot Stimulator