Abstract: A post-stroke stimulation device including a garment to be applied to a portion of a body of a stroke patient to be treated. The post-stroke stimulation device includes at least one tactile actuator adapted to supply tactile stimulation to the skin of the stroke patient. The tactile actuators are controlled to be activated and deactivated in a random pattern or a pattern selected by a medical professional.

Abstract: An implantable aneurysm clip including a first arm and an opposed second arm. The first and second arms having corresponding opposed first and second clamping surfaces facing each other, and the first and second arms are movable relative to each other. The first and second clamping surfaces are shiftable between a first, preselected, open resting position in which the first and second clamping surfaces are separated by a first distance and a second open position wherein the first and second clamping surfaces are separated by a second distance. The second distance is greater than the first distance and the first and second clamping surfaces are biased toward the first position by a biasing force.

Abstract: An implantable aneurysm clip including a first arm and an opposed second arm. The first and second arms having corresponding opposed first and second clamping surfaces facing each other, and the first and second arms are movable relative to each other. The first and second clamping surfaces are shiftable between a first, preselected, open resting position in which the first and second clamping surfaces are separated by a first distance and a second open position wherein the first and second clamping surfaces are separated by a second distance. The second distance is greater than the first distance and the first and second clamping surfaces are biased toward the first position by a biasing force.

Abstract: A post-stroke stimulation device including a garment to be applied to a portion of a body of a stroke patient to be treated. The post-stroke stimulation device includes at least one tactile actuator adapted to supply tactile stimulation to the skin of the stroke patient. The tactile actuators are controlled to be activated and deactivated in a random pattern or a pattern selected by a medical professional.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical clip comprising a first arm and a second arm, the first and second arms having first and second clamping surfaces facing each other, and the first and second arms being mounted for movement relative to each other, and further comprising a distance retaining device for keeping the first and second arms permanently spaced from each other. The present invention also relates to a surgical method for treating an aneurysm, the method comprising: applying a surgical clip to the aneurysm, the clip comprising a first arm and a second arm, aid first and second arms having first and second clamping surfaces facing each other for clamping the aneurysm therebetween, the first and second arms being mounted for movement relative to each other, and the first and second arms being kept permanently spaced from each other, wherein the aneurysm is clamped between the arms kept permanently spaced from each other.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for temporary, external, cerebral ventricular drainage in the treatment of hydrocephalus and intracranial hypertension are disclosed in which a flexible catheter having a repositionable guard surrounding its outer circumference with frictional gripping contact is inserted into the cerebral ventricle through a hole drilled in the skull. The guard is then advanced along the outside circumference of the catheter into a position, preferably the junction of the catheter and the skull hole, where the guard fixes the catheter in place and occludes the tract around the catheter by acting as a mechanical blockade and by encouraging a tissue fibrotic seal around the catheter. When the catheter is removed, the guard may be left in place inside the skull hole to eliminate any skull defect and to prevent the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid.