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Technologies to Evaluate and Advance Manipulation and Mobility
TEAMM is an engineering center focused on helping improve the mobility and upper-limb function of people with disabilities.
Research Project
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Can a Stroke Happen at Any Age?
Read the interview with Richard Harvey, MD, clinical chair of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Brain Innovation Center, about stroke in younger people.
Blog
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Just Move: A Step-by-Step Approach to Physical Fitness for Cancer Survivors
The head of our Cancer Innovation Center, discuss how cancer survivors should get active to prevent or reverse the effects of their treatments
Blog
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Healthcare Outside of the Hospital
3 remote monitoring devices are transforming how we track health.
News
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Scoring Start-up Funding for Breakthrough Research
Regrowing cartilage to turn back the body’s aging clock lends hope that osteoarthritis can be reversed.
Blog
Translational Cell Therapy Lab
Studying the relationship between adult stem/progenitor cell dysfunction and age-related degeneration.
Lab
New Publication: Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Treats Neuroma and Phantom Pain
New publication co-authored by Dr. Todd Kuiken describes how a surgical procedure developed to enhance prosthesis control may also reduce post-amputation pain.
In the News
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Chicago Health: Controlling Chronic Pain
“…we want to put the patient in control and teach them how to better manage their pain,” says Dr. Shana Margolis, attending physician at AbilityLab.
News
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2022 Awardee: Jinsook Roh, PhD
For her C-STAR project, Awardee Jinsook Roh, PhD will use a commercially available, three-dimensional, bimanual exoskeleton in the upper extremity.
In the News
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If You Fall, Reading This Story Might Help Ensure You’ll Get Up
After a life saving brain surgery, Christine Bowers is walks on the KineAssist MX, which allows people freedom of motion but catches them if they stumble.
News
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Walk This Way to Post-Stroke Recovery
The primary PTs refer patients to gait therapy if walking goals are indicated, usually soon after completion of an initial evaluation.
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