Research Projects

Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Employment for People with Physical Disabilities collaborated with Shirley Ryan Abilitylab medical staff to invite national expert Lou Orslene, Director for the Employer and Workplace Policy Team at the Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, to present a webinar entitled Enabling Work Accommodations as an Essential Element of the Return-to-Work Process.

This presentation provides strategies to support the mental and physical health of your workforce as businesses continue their transition into a ‘new normal’.

Peer support group for people with Parkinson’s disease who are working or job seeking

a NIH funded grant (James Patton, PI) investigating differences in outcomes using models that describe how a person responds to error during practice, so we can prescribe the best therapeutic training.  

This poster presentation is in virtual attendance to the American Society of Biomechanics conference in 2020

Dawn Ehde, PhD, presented on her research on chronic pain in individuals with physical disabilities and the use of telehealth to deliver cognitive-behavioral interventions to support health and independence.

Expertise within C-STAR is organized into four Cores: Engineering, Clinical, Outcomes, and Implementation Science and Community Engagement.

Access benchmark data from a wide range of diagnostic conditions, as well as resources from the Rehabilitation Measures Database.

Researchers and clinicians are invited to join our hands-on learning and mentoring program, IdeaLab.

This study will evaluate use of wearable sensors to gather information on COVID-19 like signs and symptoms.