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Parkinson's Virtual Class
A safe and controlled exercise environment designed for participants who are looking to improve their joint mobility, balance, posture, and functional strength to perform daily tasks with more ease.
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Five Wheelchair Tips for Winter
To make getting around when the temperatures plummet a little easier, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab occupational therapist Lauren Rizio offers four tips for wheelchair users to get through the winter months.
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Child Life Activities Add Comfort & Magic to Hospital Stays
Child Life is a degreed profession dedicated to understanding and minimizing the effects of illness and healthcare on children and their families. Child Life Specialists (CLSs) provide psychological, emotional and developmental support for children and families in healthcare settings, helping them cope through age-appropriate education and play.
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CROR presents poster at the 2024 Rehabilitation Psychology Mid-Year Conference
Nicole Sharf, a clinical psychology graduate student at The Chicago School working with the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, presented a poster summarizing the results of focus groups she conducted to learn more about the psychological and sexual well-being of adults with SCI at the 2024 Rehabilitation Psychology Mid-Year Conference in Austin, TX.
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The Rehabilitation Measures Database at the 2024 APTA Combined Sections Meeting in Boston
CROR Associate Director, Linda Ehrlich-Jones, PhD, RN along with Jenni Moore, PT, founder of the Institute for Knowledge Translation, presented on our Rehabilitation Measures Database (with 558 summarized measures and counting!) at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in Boston.
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Biomarkers for Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury
The Translational Biomedicine Lab is proud to collaborate with Dr. Monica Perez and her Team on a clinical study focused on spinal cord injury (SCI) within the Spinal Cord Injury Model System.
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In the News: Former Patient Jaya Profiled by ABC Des Moines
The ABC affiliate TV station in Des Moines recently profiled former Shirley Ryan AbilityLab patient Jaya Fever. In December 2022, Jaya — then a high school senior — was in a car accident that left her with a traumatic brain injury.
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New research tracks trends among Medicare beneficiaries with traumatic brain injury treated in inpatient rehabilitation facilities
Between 2013 and 2018, the number of Medicare beneficiaries with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who were treated in inpatient rehabilitation facilities increased by 28%, according to a new study published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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CROR Study Finds Virtual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Significantly Reduces Chronic Pain and Fatigue
People with chronic pain experienced a significant reduction in their pain levels after participating in a study that provided phone-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focused on helping people self-manage their pain.
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Mary Curran: Helping Women, Families and Children through Social Work, Counseling and Research
The five-year study for the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is winding up and Curran played a major role as one of the therapists delivering CBT to the 200 participants, collecting data and writing up the findings.
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Sharon Parmet: Applying her Background in Science Writing to Spread the Word About CROR’s Research
Parmet joined Shirley Ryan AbilityLab as a healthcare communications associate for the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) in early 2023. Learn about the impact she's made so far.
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New Analysis Finds Smaller Labor Market Gains for Black Americans with Disabilities Since the Pandemic
The news about employment opportunities for people with disabilities has been almost uniformly good since the Covid-19 pandemic ended.
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