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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.
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College Students Take Longer to Recover from a Concussion
It takes 7-14 days to recover from a concussion. Researchers questioned if it takes longer in college students who find it difficult to find time to recover.
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My Le: Grounding Herself in Rehabilitation Research to Prepare for a Career in Psychology
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Active After Breast Cancer
Tara, diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2016 during a regular mammogram, was training for a 10-mile race. How would treatment affect her active lifestyle?
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Allen Heinemann, PhD
Director, Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research
Professor, Department of PM&R, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern
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Dawn Ehde: Helping people manage chronic pain
Dawn Ehde, PhD sees patients in neurological rehab programs and assesses how these conditions affect patient cognition, pain, mood, and well-being.
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Translational Musculoskeletal Research (TMSKR) Laboratory
Our research is mainly 4 main categories: knee osteoarthritis, adaptive sports, physical activity related studies and outcomes of musculoskeletal treatments.
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Heidi Fischer: Combining Occupational Therapy with Research and Teaching
Fischer, OTD, is now doing exactly that as a Clinical Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she specializes in self-management for people with chronic conditions such as stroke and diabetes.
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Former College Hoops Star Fights MS: 'She's Not Going To Give Up'
After insurance refused to pay for six-figure stem-cell transplant, Jasmine Matthews kept fighting, launching a Go Fund Me campaign.
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Regenerative Neurorehabilitation Laboratory
This lab uses a combination of molecular, biochemical, and electrophysiological assays to study axon regeneration and motor neuron disease with a priority on human preclinical models such as iPSC-neurons.
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Charles Bombardier: Combining Behavioral Medicine and Rehabilitation Psychology to Help People with Disabilities
When Charles Bombardier looks back on his long career in behavioral medicine and rehabilitation psychology, he says it all started with his high school teacher Mrs. Hagan.
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Heather Evans: Disability, Institutions and Effecting Change in Washington State
Heather Evans works on a project for the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, developing a decision aid designed to help people with disabilities decide when and whether to disclose their condition to an employer.
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