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HCBS Webinar: The Evolution of Person-Centered Practices

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Employment Among Persons with Disabilities: Job Numbers, Job Quality, and Job Crafting NIDLRR Invited Lectureship by Debra Brucker

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Physical Activity Engagement

Our goal is also to understand factors that maybe related to individual engagement in physical activity and how that changes in certain conditions e.g. lung cancer diagnosis or mitigation strategies of COVID-19.

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Outcomes of Musculoskeletal Treatments

Our work in this area focuses on outlining factors that maybe related to the outcome of musculoskeletal procedures or treatments for degenerative musculoskeletal conditions.

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Adaptive Sports Research

We are investigating physical activity and common injuries in individuals playing adaptive sports.

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Knee Osteoarthritis

Learn more about our projects and focus on assisting sports injury and biological markers for knee joint distress.

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Digital Health Technology for Physical Therapy

This study is currently recruiting for Aim 1, which includes a short interview to help us learn about the barriers and facilitators to using digital health technology for people with Parkinson’s. If you are a physical therapist, a person with Parkinson’s, or a person who works in the technology industry, you may be eligible for this study!

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Neuromuscular mechanisms of specific trunk interventions in children with cerebral palsy

The goal of the proposed study is to examine the neuromuscular mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effect of hippotherapy and determine whether repeated exposure to a pelvic perturbation force would be effective in improving trunk postural control and gait of children with cerebral palsy. This study is supported by NIH/NINDS, 1R01NS115487, Date of Project Period: 03/01/2020-02/28/2025

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Co-Robot Controllers for Human-Like Physical Interaction and Improved Motor Learning

This research project is working on improving the interactions between robots and humans by learning from human paired physical interaction to apply to human like robotics.

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Precision Medicine Originating From Patient Derived Neurons

This project studies precision neurotrauma medicine with patient-derived iPSC-neurons to determine patient specific factors affecting clinical outcomes

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Wearable Airbag Technology to Mitigate Falls in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease

We expect that a smart, wearable airbag system that can accurately predict falls and quickly inflate will reduce hip fractures in people with Parkinson's.

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Researching Sensory-specific Peripheral Stimulation

The purpose of this research project is to understand the neurophysiological mechanisms of peripheral electrical stimulation (PES) in modulating tremors, sometimes seen in Parkinson's disease.

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