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Lunchtime Workout Routine

Movement is essential for staying healthy. Aerobic exercise can help lower your risk of cardiovascular disease, and resistance training can help lower your risk of osteoporosis and other degenerative conditions.

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Back to Basics: Five Tips for Starting a New Running Regime

While we’re all sheltering in place, many of us have found our activity levels declining. Gyms are closed, we aren’t walking to work, and our normal routines have changed drastically. Physical activity is now more important than ever, and running is a great way to keep moving that doesn’t require any special equipment.

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Top Honors for New Nurse Residency Program

On May 18, the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs awarded our New Graduate Nurse Residency Program its “Accreditation with Distinction” — ANCC’s highest possible level of recognition.

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At home workout series from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

At Home Workout: Parkinson’s Integrated Exercise Program

This class is specifically designed to help individuals with later stages of Parkinson’s disease use exercise for symptom management.

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Balance in the midst of COVID chaos: Why daily routines matter

“The secret to life is to adjust,” is a phrase often quoted by my parents when I would dig in my heels to protest change. COVID-19 has led many of us to experience a loss of structure, routine and even meaning in daily life. Experiencing a pandemic is uncharted territory. We have been tasked with “adjusting” in all facets of life.

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In the News: Researchers Develop COVID Symptom Tracking Device

Twenty-five people in a test study in Chicago are currently wearing small, postage stamp-sized flexible devices on their throats. The goal is to track signs and symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus and monitor progression of the illness.

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Rethink your home exercise game: Five pieces of exercise equipment you didn’t know you had

Five pieces of exercise equipment you didn’t know you had.

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Gordon Quinn gets rehab after COVID-19

‘It’s one thing to survive the infection, but what’s next?’ Some COVID-19 patients need rehab to walk, talk and problem solve

Quinn, like many severely ill COVID-19 patients, found that surviving the disease was merely the first leg of the journey to overcoming it.

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Moving less while sheltering in place? Here are five ways to increase your activity

While sheltering in place, we’ve all noted the numerous ways in which we’ve decreased our activity — gone are commutes, walks to grab lunch, hitting the gym, going to the playground with our kids, dinner at a local spot and the list continues.

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Using an Ultraflex Stretching AFO

The Ultraflex AFO is a unique device designed to provide a continuous muscle stretch to improve range of motion for functional activities.

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At home workout series from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

At Home Workout: Parkinson’s Amplitude-Based Training

This is an advanced group exercise class that utilizes high-intensity, multidirectional and repetitive movements to increase endurance, balance and functionality of everyday movements.

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CBS Chicago: Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Physical Therapy Patients At Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Embrace Telehealth

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers had to come up with new ways to see patients in need.

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