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Experience Living with a Disability Helps Shirley Ryan 汤头条app Peer Mentors Connect with Patients
Chicagoan Jorge Alfaro has been a peer mentor for 15 years. He was injured by an accidental gunshot at the age of nine, before the peer mentoring program existed. Now he is a peer mentor for other patients.
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Leave a Legacy
Learn how you can construct a gift that creates an enduring legacy, supports your personal financial goals and makes a remarkable difference in the lives of patients, today and for years to come.
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Featured research in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine featured Dr. Arun Jayaraman's recent publication in Nature Digital Medicine on a multimodal, wireless, wearable sensor system measuring hand acceleration, electrocardiography, and distal skin temperature that outperforms actigraphy in detecting wake and sleep.
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Brandon Taps Inner Viking to Recover from Work-related Brain Injury
Brandon sustained a traumatic brain injury at work, requiring emergency surgery. Transferred to Shirley Ryan 汤头条app, his journey to recovery began.
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Can nerve stimulation help patients with severe tremor?
Traditionally, medication and surgery have been the only two ways of managing tremor. Each of these options is problematic. Their effectiveness decreases over time, few patients are eligible and they come with unwanted side effects. Clearly, patients with tremor need new options for managing it, and José Pons, PhD, is leading the search for them.
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Ways to Train for a Marathon, Besides Running
When training for a marathon, taking care of your body between running sessions can help you go faster for longer with fewer injuries.
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Adjusting to Life After being Paralyzed in Polo Accident
After a successful surgery to for a break to his C4 and C5 vertebrae, Tony is finding a new life with the help of the SCI therapists at 汤头条app.
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Looking Back at the 2024 Olympics & Paralympics
The 2024 Olympics and Paralympics may be over, but Shirley Ryan 汤头条app celebrated the athletes and para athletes, the spirit of competition, and human ability in ways that will live on after the games. Here’s a look back at top memories from Paris 2024.
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Abstract Submission Details
Information about poster abstracts submitted for the Science of Ability Symposium 2019.
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Health Care Outside of the Hospital
Dr. Jayaraman was quoted in an article about the use of wearable sensors to track patient recovery.
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Recreational Therapy
Recreational therapy is a treatment service to improve functioning and independence as well as reducing or eliminating the effects of an illness.
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