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Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Training Video for Clinicians
Video for clinicians about the principles of Targeted Muscle Reinnervation surgery.
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Dr. Richard Lieber Awarded VA’s Highest Honor in Rehabilitation Research
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently named Richard Lieber, PhD, chief scientific officer and senior vice president, Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, the winner of its 2023 Paul B. Magnuson Award.
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Reframing a Problem as a Solution
Exploiting Spasticity's Promise: Biomarker Points to Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury.
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It’s More Than Curb Cuts and Ramps: Support at Work Is Key to a Successful Re-entry for People with Disabilities
To find out why employment levels among people with disabilities have remained stuck at less than 40% in recent decades and identify best practices among employers, Heinemann and a team of researchers conducted an online cross-sectional survey of almost 350 people with disabilities in the Chicago area.
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Research Informed by Care: Niveda Tennety uses Storytelling to Inform Work
In her ten months as a research assistant at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, Niveda Tennety said one of the most important lessons she has learned is the value of storytelling.
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Chronic Pain Affects Many in the U.S. Workforce New Self-Management Techniques Show Promise
Often defined as any pain lasting more than 12 weeks, chronic pain may be the result of an injury like a sprain, MS, spinal stenosis.
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New Research Shows Promise to Improve Walking in Kids with Cerebral Palsy
A new study is first to provide direct evidence to indicate that improving weight shifting capacity of children with CP may improve overall walking function.
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Battling COVID-19: Filmmaker Spends Month in Hospital, Weeks in Rehab
Gordon Quinn couldn’t speak. But he desperately needed to tell his doctors something.
The 77-year-old world-renowned documentarian was finally off a ventilator, for the second time. He had just been helped into a sitting position for the first time in weeks. But now they were talking about putting him on a ventilator for a third time.
The 77-year-old world-renowned documentarian was finally off a ventilator, for the second time. He had just been helped into a sitting position for the first time in weeks. But now they were talking about putting him on a ventilator for a third time.
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Karen Tamley: A Life of Expanding Civil Rights and Increasing Access for People with Disabilities
Karen Tamley was born with a congenital spinal condition that meant she would never be able to walk and would always need a wheelchair. Now, she works to reduce poverty in the disability community, closing the digital divide and increasing services to Chicagoans who have become disabled because of gun violence.
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New Research Reveals the Brain’s Role in Mystical Experiences
A new study from Jordan Grafman is shedding light on the brain’s role in mystical experiences—encounters where people feel connected to a higher power.
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