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Stroke Recovery
Stroke rehabilitation is a race against time. Choosing the right place for care and starting therapy as soon as possible impacts recovery of both brain and body. Regardless of the type of stroke (e.g., ischemic, hemorrhagic), our focus is on helping you regain lost abilities.
With advances in care, research and technology, there’s never been greater hope for stroke recovery.
Meet Our Patients
You want to recover what’s most important in your life — be it learning to walk or speak again, make breakfast, or play golf.
Norman Plays Guitar as Therapy
Music therapy helps patients relax while providing another way for them to build strength and work on movements. Check out this video of Norman just 17 days after his stroke.
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Ryan's Story: Surviving a Stroke at 20
Ryan suffered a stroke when he was just 20 while he was on vacation with his family in Florida. After months of intensive therapy, Ryan has made an incredible recovery. He has learned to walk, improved his hand function and has his sights back on school.
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Emily Finds Help from Man's Best Friend
After having a stroke while running on the treadmill, Emily Rutledge found help from an unlikely source: Georgia, the AbilityLab's therapy dog. Sometimes the best technology is man's best friend.
read moreHow We Heal
The needs of stroke survivors are unique. From offering best-in-class inpatient care in our Brain Innovation Center to leveraging the latest scientific breakthroughs in our Ability Labs, our state-of-the-art facility offers the greatest chance for stroke recovery.
Brain Innovation Center
With three dedicated floors of inpatient care and over 100 beds, the Brain Innovation Center is designed to take care of patients with diverse conditions and to promote brain healing and recovery by providing the world’s best medical & nursing care supported by our novel research.
Learn MoreLegs + Walking Lab
This Lab is designed for patients and research participants with diagnoses affecting lower-body function due to brain or spinal cord injury and diseases of the nerves, muscles and bones. Researchers and clinicians focus on advancing trunk, pelvic and leg function, movement, coordination, strength and balance.
Arms + Hands Lab
The two-story Harris Family Foundation Arms + Hands Lab is a robust environment designed for patients and research participants working on recovering and strengthening complex hand and reaching skills — turning a key, picking up a pen, reaching for a glass, putting on a sweater…all the many things we do with our hands, arms and fingers.
Think + Speak Lab
Recovering the ability to think, reason, perceive, swallow, eat, talk, interact with others and make decisions are key for returning to yourself, loved ones and life. In this Lab, combined therapeutic care and scientific application help you recover these building blocks of ability.
Strength + Endurance Lab
This Lab is designed for patients and research participants working on building stamina and resilience. Therapy is targeted to improve complex motor and endurance activities, coordination and higher-level activities of daily living (cooking, dressing, gardening, sports).
Science-Driven Care
With nearly 200 clinical trials and research studies specifically dedicated to improving function and recovery from stroke (including treatment for aphasia) — we offer you access to the world’s most advanced research, which can directly impact your recovery.
Center for Brain Stimulation (CBS)
The mission of CBS is to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for neurological and psychiatric disorders utilizing non-invasive brain stimulation. We also conduct studies on healthy volunteers to understand how the human brain works.
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Genetic Variation, Stress, and Functional Outcomes after Stroke Rehabilitation
he proposed studies will examine how genetics interacts with rehabilitation therapy and with stress to affect treatment-induced recovery after stroke.
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