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Learning to Get Up Again After a Spinal Cord Injury

While on a horseback ride in Beirut, Laetitia fell and suffered a severe spinal cord injury leaving her completely paralyzed.

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A Day in the Life: Performing Arts Physician Saves Careers by Fine-tuning Artists’ Form

Maria Reese, MD, still remembers landing in a Tennessee emergency department with a knee injury as a young dancer. The prognosis was grim: she would never dance again. Reese recently recalled “being devastated and thinking I'll prove that to be wrong, I'll get back to dancing.” And she did.

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SkyRise Chicago 2024 Recap

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab team members thank all who participated in our 16th Annual SkyRise Chicago on Nov. 3, 2024! Together, we surpassed our fundraising goal to raise more than $1.4 million — an all-time record.

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Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Our key insight, then and now: To advance human ability, we must embrace humanity with love, empathy and compassion.

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The Ongoing Evolution of Medical Education

For at least the last decade, medical schools have been shifting towards problem-based learning enriched with group discussion.

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Rachel Hitch, SLP

Research Speech Language Pathologist
Outpatient Speech Language Pathologist

Nutrition & Hydration for Marathon Training

Coming up with a nutrition plan for a marathon can seem like an arduous task, but by breaking it down to the basics and answering some common questions, we hope to set marathon runners up for success.

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Co-Robot Controllers for Human-Like Physical Interaction and Improved Motor Learning

This research project is working on improving the interactions between robots and humans by learning from human paired physical interaction to apply to human like robotics.

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