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Evelyn’s Story: A Moving Milestone on Anniversary of Spinal Cord Injury
Evelyn and her young daughter, Julia, were rear-ended by a driver traveling at high speed. After 10 days in an acute-care hospital, Evelyn transferred to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for inpatient care and rehabilitation.
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Knee Osteoarthritis
Learn more about our projects and focus on assisting sports injury and biological markers for knee joint distress.
Research Project
Dr. Leora Cherney Honored with Inaugural Mentoring Award from Aphasia Access
At a recent ceremony in Boston, Leora Cherney, PhD, scientific chair, Robert R. McCormick Foundation Think + Speak Lab, became the very first recipient of the Sandra O. Glista Excellence in Mentoring Award. The honor was given by Aphasia Access, an organization that supports academics and healthcare professionals who work with patients with aphasia.
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Inpatient Care
We treat several thousand inpatients with a wide variety of functional impairments, from the common to the most complex.
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Dr. Mitra Lavasani Earns Prestigious R01 Grant from NIH
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s Mitra Lavasani, PhD, the director of the Translational Cell Therapy Lab, will advance a novel approach that could help find if there a way to turn back the clock on aging.
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Foundations of Adaptive Yoga: Part 2
Building on "Foundations of Adaptive Yoga: Part 1," this class offers more variations for a continued challenge.
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Got long Covid? Seniors should prepare to go slow
Older adults who have survived Covid-19 are more likely than younger patients to have persistent symptoms such as fatigue, breathlessness, muscle aches, heart palpitations, headaches, joint pain and difficulty with memory and concentration — problems linked to long Covid.
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Expansion of self-direction of Medicaid services during COVID-19 pandemic yields positive outcomes, but more research is needed
People who self-direct Medicaid services generally have more control over their daily lives.
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NYT: Cognitive Rehab: One Patient’s Painstaking Path Through Long Covid Therapy
Nearly two years into the pandemic, advances have been made in treating Covid itself, but long Covid — a constellation of lingering health problems that some patients experience — remains little understood.
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Advanced Control Systems for Powered Prosthetic Legs
Robotic powered prostheses have a number of built-in mechanical sensors that can gather information about the position, angle, and force exerted by the prosthetic joints.
Research Project
What are organoids, and how can we leverage this extraordinary technology?
Dr. Colin Franz is developing organoids — artificially grown masses of cells or tissue that resemble organs — to see whether this technique can contribute to life-changing discoveries for our patients.
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Expansion of self-direction of Medicaid services during COVID-19 pandemic yields positive outcomes, but more research is needed
When a person chooses to self-direct their Medicaid services they make decisions about and manage their own home and community-based services (HCBS) and supports.
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