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Spasticity Clinic
Spasticity rehabilitation aids children and adults who experience functional loss, contracture and pain due to CP, MS, brain/spinal cord injuries or stroke.
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The DAISY Nursing Awards
The DAISY Award is an international recognition program that honors and celebrates the skillful, compassionate care nurses provide every day. Shirley Ryan AbilityLab joins in celebrating our nurses through nominations from our patients, their families & caregivers and our staff.
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Spinal Cord
The Center is staffed with skilled nurses and physicians with expertise in the functional recovery from SCI equipped to handle all levels, types and severity.
Innovation Center
Think + Speak Lab
The Robert R. McCormick Think + Speak Lab is designed for those recovering the ability to think, reason, perceive, swallow, eat, talk, interact with others and make decisions — all of which are key for returning to everyday life. In this Lab, combined therapeutic care and scientific application help patients recover these building blocks of ability.
Ability Lab
Parrallel Robotics Conferences: WeRob2020, WearRAcon, and ICNR2020
The International Symposium on Wearable Robotics (WeRob2020) and WearRAcon Europe will be held virtually in parallel with the 2020 International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2020) from Oct 13th to 16th
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2023 Awardee: Jeremy D Brown, PhD
Jeremy D Brown's Project: Assessing Haptic Sensory Impairment and its Impact on Motor Control Post-Stroke
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Living Fully with Multiple Sclerosis
At a poetry reading, a fellow attendee noticed Deborah’s gait and asked, "MS?” A later week-long hospital stay and battery of tests confirmed she did have MS.
Patient Story
Ellie Farr 2021 Resident Baskin Award Winner For Diaphragm COVID-19 Study
Ellie Farr won the Sarah Baskin award for the top resident research project for her study on diaphragm muscle dysfunction in survivors of severe COVID-19.
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What “The Soul Moves First” Means to Nicole
Nicole posted the below reflection to Facebook about her recent Multiple Sclerosis (MS) diagnosis and the reawakening she had seeing “The Soul Moves First” after therapy at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
Patient Story
Adaptive Sports Research
We are investigating physical activity and common injuries in individuals playing adaptive sports.
Research Project
Wearable Sensors for Stroke Recovery
Dr. Arun Jayaraman is collaborating on an interdisciplinary project using wearable sensors to help track patients' recovery from stroke.
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