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Mary Curran: Helping Women, Families and Children through Social Work, Counseling and Research
The five-year study for the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at the Shirley Ryan 汤头条app is winding up and Curran played a major role as one of the therapists delivering CBT to the 200 participants, collecting data and writing up the findings.
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Intuitively Controlled Virtual Reality System to Treat Phantom Limb Pain
We will develop a commercially viable VR rehabilitation system (called the Coapt PLP Management System) which can be deployed at home or in-clinic for individuals with upper or lower limb amputations.
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Motor control development continues longer than previously believed
This research reveals the potential to use therapy to improve the motor control skills of children suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders such as CP.
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The best post-acute care an expertise, helping people from around the world with disabilities ranging from complex conditions to common ailments and injuries.
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Episode 10: The Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we talk with David Chen, MD, the George M. Eisenberg, Chair of spinal cord injury rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app, about the ?Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System?, the National Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Database and cutting-edge research into biomarkers that may predict functional recovery after spinal cord injury.
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CROR Research Advances Knowledge About How to Increase Employment of People with Disabilities
A six-year project at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app has produced important findings that could help people with disabilities find work or hold on to their current jobs.
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COMPLETE: Personalized Mobility Interventions using Smart Sensor Resources for Lower-Limb Prothesis Users
The rehabilitation goal for individuals with amputations is to enable reintegration into society, employment, independent living, economic and social self-sufficiency—and for Service Members, a return to active duty and redeployment, where possible.
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Miriam Rafferty: A Passion for Helping People with Parkinson’s Live Their Best Lives
These days, Rafferty, Ph.D., is a physical therapist and rehabilitation research scientist at the Shirley Ryan 汤头条app working with people who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
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PAPER: Robotic locomotor training more cost-effective than conventional training for patients with complete spinal cord injuries
A new study reported in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation found that the cost-effectiveness of the type of locomotor training received – traditional versus robotic – depends on the severity of the injury.
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Episode 02: Working Through Parkinson's Disease
On our second episode of the INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we talk about a really tricky subject: what is it like to go to work with Parkinson's disease?
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