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Smartphone-Based Program Effective in Helping People Stick to Healthy Behaviors to Improve Stroke Recovery
A smartphone-based, coach-supported educational program called iSMART (Self-Management Augmented Rehabilitation Technologies) is a low-cost, effective way to help people manage their chronic symptoms, emotions, and engagement in daily activities after a stroke, according to a new paper published in JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies.
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Four Exercises to Improve Your Golf Game
Golf requires greater physical fitness than many people realize. Explore our guide of four exercises to improve your golf game!
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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Nursing at the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses 2018 Conference
At the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses' (ARN) REACH 2018 conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., Shirley Ryan AbilityLab nurses participated in and led several presentations — and collected one big award.
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Managing Changes in Self-Identity After a Serious Injury or Medical Condition
Self-identity is defined as how someone perceives their life roles and abilities. After a serious injury or medical condition, people’s self-identities — as employees or students, parents, spouses and children, or athletes — can change in ways that can be distressing. If you are struggling with changes in identity, use these four strategies to assist with coping.
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Returning to Exercise After COVID
COVID is not the same as a cold or flu, and returning to physical activity after getting over COVID is not the same as hitting the gym after a mild illness.
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Congratulations to Our 2023 Pilot Projects Awardees!
Meet our project awardees that were selected to receive funding as part of the Center for Smart Use of Technology to Assess Real-World Outcomes (C-STAR) Pilot Project Program.
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Emily Dinelli: Combining Clinical Work and Research to Help People Who Use Prosthetic Devices
Dinelli, 27, is currently taking classes while working part-time at a private Chicago orthotics and prosthetics clinic while also doing research for a CROR study on employment for people with physical disabilities.
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Jacqueline Kish, PhD, a CROR postdoctoral fellow with an interest in accessible transportation
Jacqueline Kish, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Rehabilitation and Outcomes Research, says that her area of expertise – accessible transportation – isn’t one people think about until they have to.
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Development of motor cortical interfaces for the control of reaching, grasping and locomotion
Using this neuroprosthesis to overcome the effects of a reversible nerve block that paralyzed muscles of the hand and wrist, monkeys were able to perform functional tasks, such as grasping a ball, almost as successfully as they did before paralysis.
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Nick McCombs: Finding His Passion in Psychology and Research
Nick McCombs' persistence paid off and he was hired in 2019 as a research assistant at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab on studies related to custom orthotic devices and robotic exoskeletons.
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Elise Olsen: Early experiences and connections to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab make her job 'very full circle'
You could say it was inevitable that Elise Olsen would find her way to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab where she is a research assistant in the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR).
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