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Spinal Cord Injury
Our goal is to help you achieve your best outcome with cutting-edge treatments. As the world’s #1 referral choice for spinal cord injury, you benefit from our integration of medicine, research and technology.
Program, Services & Patients
You want to recover what’s most important in your life — be it mobility, independence or walking again. Together we reach for those goals.
SCI Recovery Program
See what sets us apart from other rehabilitation hospitals and why our outcomes for spinal cord injury patients are exceptional.
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SCI Specialty Services
Our wide array of services, many available only here at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, will help you and your family navigate your recovery.
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Brad's Story: Back on the Bike
Brad Baker is a leading flat track racer. On July 22, he sustained a SCI at Minneapolis X Games. His recovery at AbilityLab has brought him back to the bike.
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Our integrated team of physicians, nurses, therapists, researchers and case managers understand the most complex injuries. They create programs for each patient – tailored to your individual goals. Therapy may take place in one or several ability labs.
Legs + Walking Lab
Arms + Hands Lab
Strength + Endurance Lab
Pediatric Lab
Innovations in neuroscience have led to outcomes once impossible for spinal cord injury patients.
Science-Driven Care
With more than 350 clinical studies under way — several specifically dedicated to improving recovery from damage to the vertebrae and spinal cord — we offer you access to the world’s most advanced research, which can directly impact your recovery.
Assistive & Rehabilitation Robotics Lab
We incorporate robotics autonomy and intelligence into assistive machines to support people with motor impairments.
view labClinical Trials and Research Studies
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A Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy in Individuals with SCI
A study to investigate the effectiveness of daily acute intermittent hypoxia therapy (dAIH), coupled with a massed practice intervention or the use of high repetition training.
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Locomotor function following transcutaneous electrical spinal cord stimulation in individuals with hemiplegic stroke
This study is looking for persons who have had a stroke to determine if spinal stimulation helps improve walking ability.
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Repetitive Acute Intermittent Hypoxia for Spinal Cord Repair
This research is being conducted to study the effects of breathing low oxygen air (hypoxia) and exercise training on recovery of upper limb (arms and hands) and lower limb (legs) function in people with spinal cord injury.
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Our doctors, therapists and scientists are leaders in their fields. We bring together these experts with the most advanced medical research and technology to give you superior care and the greatest chance for your best outcome.
