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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab biostatistician joins editorial board of Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
Learn more about Manasi Sheth, PhD, a biostatistician who joined the editorial board of Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
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Nominate An Outstanding Nursing Team Member for National Nurses Week Awards
Staff, patients and family members – are there nurses you want to recognize for their commitment to excellence in patient care? Nominate them for Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's National Nurses Week Awards!
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Pediatric Ventilator Admission Guidelines
Our goal is to optimize patient’s success with ventilator free breathing time through strengthening and breathing re-training.
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Specialized Clinical Services & Spaces
In addition to our state-of-the-art ability labs — applied therapeutic and research spaces — our facility features other innovative areas designed to help our patients recover.
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Muscle mitochondrial function in children with cerebral palsy
Our lab uses a number of biological methods to assess mitochondrial characteristics in muscles. The goal is to understand how alterations in mitochondrial biogenesis might lead to impaired muscle growth in children with cerebral palsy.
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Muscle stem cell characteristics in children with cerebral palsy
Our lab is interested in how their abundance and characteristics are related to muscle growth across different muscles in children with cerebral palsy.
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Serum metabolomics in individuals with cerebral palsy
Learn about the Pediatric Muscle Physiology Lab's research project and their interest in how systemic metabolomics, for example in serum is altered in people with cerebral palsy and how it is related to their capacity for movement.
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Healing Body, Mind & Spirit through Music: Meet Music Therapist April Hickey
April Hickey, MT-BC, describes how Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s Music Therapy Program works and its positive impact on patients.
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Episode 14: Transportation Accessibility in the Windy City
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, we will be talking about accessibility and public transportation.
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Chicago Health Magazine Profiles Regenstein Foundation Center for Bionic Medicine’s Bionic Leg Testing
A recent article in Chicago Health magazine highlighted the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Regenstein Foundation Center for Bionic Medicine’s (CBM) testing of bionic prosthetic legs for patients with lower-limb amputations.
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Nutrition & Hydration for Marathon Training
Coming up with a nutrition plan for a marathon can seem like an arduous task, but by breaking it down to the basics and answering some common questions, we hope to set marathon runners up for success.
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Misty Jenkins, LTSS Solutions Manager, Mississippi Division of Medicaid
Jenkins serves on the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) Rehabilitation Research Training Center (RRTC) on Home and Community-Based Services Advisory Council where she provides input and feedback about measures under development to evaluate person-centered HCBS.
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