CROR Outcomes Newsletter Archive
The CROR Outcomes Newsletter is a quarterly newsletter produced by the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research.
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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 AbilityLab 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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CROR Study Finds Virtual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Significantly Reduces Chronic Pain and Fatigue
People with chronic pain experienced a significant reduction in their pain levels after participating in a study that provided phone-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focused on helping people self-manage their pain.
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Kara Link: Working to Understand the Connections Between Chronic Pain and Substance Misuse
Link began working with Ehde on a project funded through the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. The project examines whether telephone-delivered therapy can help people with disabilities, including multiple sclerosis (MS), stay employed.
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Emily Dinelli: Combining Clinical Work and Research to Help People Who Use Prosthetic Devices
Dinelli, 27, is currently taking classes while working part-time at a private Chicago orthotics and prosthetics clinic while also doing research for a CROR study on employment for people with physical disabilities.
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People with Disabilities Continued to Make Employment Gains in 2023
Despite the U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates in 2023 to their highest levels in decades, the U.S. labor market has remained remarkably resilient.
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CROR Receives $4.5 Million Grant to Evaluate How Different Inpatient Rehabilitation Lengths of Stay Affect Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries
The Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab was awarded a $4.2 million, five-year grant to explore how different rehabilitation lengths of stay and intensity of rehabilitation affect outcomes and quality of life for people with spinal cord injury in different countries.
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People with early Parkinson’s disease experience levels of financial toxicity similar to those of people with advanced cancer
Financial hardship and stress from financial worries, or ‘financial toxicity,’ among people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease can be as high as that experienced by people with advanced cancer according to a new study published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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