MedStar Health Blog

This article was written by Harsh Thakkar, Community Outreach Manager, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital.  When I was 20, I sustained a spinal cord injury. At the time, it felt like my ...

For more than 30 years, patients in our clinics have told strikingly similar stories. They've experienced subtle, unexplained changes in their health, often over a long period of time. Sometimes it’s...

Singer Billy Joel has cancelled his 2025 planned concerts, announcing he’s been diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), a rare brain disorder. Frequently mistaken for Alzheimer&rsqu...

Medications for movement disorders can help patients regain control of motor symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, and slowness. Yet for some patients, these medications can become less effective over ...

More than 600,000 people in the U.S. have a first stroke each year, but up to 80% of these could be preventable. Recently updated prevention guidelines from the American Stroke Association (ASA) aim ...

Funded by an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health, our research examines the validity of a virtual reality floor maze test that could help identify early signs of Alzheimer’s diseas...