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Ascension Saint Joseph Hospital - Elgin: Inpatient
Ascension Saint Joseph Hospital - Elgin
77 North Airlite Street
Elgin, IL 60123
United States
National Patients
Patients travel to the AbilityLab from across the United States to take advantage of our inpatient, DayRehabCenter®, outpatient, and ExpertEval® services.
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Meet the Research Team: Maxson Joseph
Learn more about Maxson Joseph, a research assistant in the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
In the News
Paige Cordts
Graduate Student Researcher
UChicago Medicine Mitchell Hospital
UChicago Medicine Mitchell Hospital
5815 South Maryland
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
CBS Chicago: Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Physical Therapy Patients At Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Embrace Telehealth
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers had to come up with new ways to see patients in need.
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Barriers to Access and Utilization of Care Persist for Individuals with Disabilities in Rural and Urban Settings
There are an estimated 41 million people with disabilities in the United States, according to census data from 2019. While individuals with disabilities can be found in every community in the US, researchers have noticed certain trends in the rates of disability by geographic area.
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Melissa Richter, PT, DPT, CLT, WCS
Pelvic Health Physical Therapist
William Reyna, BS
Graduate Research Student
Altering Post-Stroke Motor Recovery
True behavioral restitution, a return to normal motor patterns with the affected limb post-stroke, requires the recruitment and restoration of the residual ipsilesional hemisphere/corticospinal tract (CST). Following stroke, the spontaneous recovery mechanism selectively and continuously uses a more optimized neural network for motor execution, depending on the degree of CST damage.
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