#1 for 34
Consecutive Years
Providing exceptional care for more stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury patients than anywhere else in the USA.
How Can We Help?
Patients from around the world choose us for acute rehabilitation. Our hospital is designed to treat the whole patient – physically and mentally. See all the Conditions + Services offerings.
What Sets Us Apart?
Choosing the right rehabilitation partner is vital to achieving your best outcome.
Why Choose Us?
Our new research hospital serves our patients in ways that are unprecedented in medicine.
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We treat more patients for stroke, spinal cord injury and brain injury than any other rehabilitation hospital.
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Our patients report better functional improvements for self-care and mobility than the national average.
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Over 50% of our therapists have advanced certifications beyond their Master’s and PhD’s.
Patient Stories
At Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, you’ll become part of a thriving medical-research community that will champion and celebrate your successes. We’ll help you achieve your best outcome, faster.
Clinical Trials
Research fuels our passion and informs our patient care. See if you quality for one of our studies.
Accepting Patients
Research Survey: Answer questions about your experience receiving Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS)
The purpose of this study is to test a set of surveys designed to determine if Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) are person-centered. HCBS are services that help people with disabilities or older adults to live in the community and are paid for by Medicaid.
Accepting Patients
Modulating stimuli intensity to improve clinical outcomes in aphasia treatment
We are conducting a research study that will help us understand how to better schedule speech and language therapy. The therapy can be done from home on either your personal computer or laptop that we will lend to you.
Accepting Patients
Improving Adherence to Spinal Cord Injury Exercise Guidelines Using Smartphone-Based Technology and E-coaching: A Proof-of-Concept SMART-Design Study
Trial of an SCI-specific smartphone exercise app for a 2-week period and providing feedback.
Accepting Patients
Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation Research Study
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is conducting a research study on how robots can be used as rehabilitation tools.
Accepting Patients
Robot-Assisted Upper Extremity Rehabilitation
The Shirley Ryan Ability Lab is conducting a research study on how robots can be used as rehabilitation tools.
Latest News
The Show Must Go On: The Performing Arts Medicine Program
What happens when a dancer feels a twinge as she lands her hundredth tour jeté of the week? Or, when an actor feels a tweak in his elbow after the big sword fight in Act III? Fortunately, performing…
view all newsTeen Patient’s Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury Featured in Wisconsin News Segment
Several months earlier, Brett experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a power-washing incident. Over the holidays, he continued his recovery at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago, with his family at his side.
Portraits of Recovery: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Patient Artists Featured on the Wintrust Mural Building
For the past nine years, the Wintrust Mural Building, located along Interstate 90 between North and Armitage avenues, has showcased murals celebrating Chicago’s nonprofit organizations. Now, art and healing come together in “Portraits of Recovery,” a vibrant new mural on display featuring artwork created by three patient artists from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.