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Accommodations & Return to Work Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Webinar
This presentation provides strategies to support the mental and physical health of your workforce as businesses continue their transition into a ‘new normal’.
Research Project
“Voices of Experience” videos connect people with new spinal cord injuries to people who have been living with paralysis for years
View the 10-part video series which was created with funds from the Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System grant to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
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Urmi’s Story: A Young Scientist’s Journey
A neurophysiologist's journey to recovery after a rare type of stroke.
Patient Story
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Adds to Research Firepower With its First Full-time Biostatistician
Although in-depth knowledge of biostatistics is key to producing high-quality, evidence-based healthcare research, it’s also probably fair to say that few researchers and physicians love statistics.
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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Nursing at the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses 2018 Conference
At the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses' (ARN) REACH 2018 conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., Shirley Ryan AbilityLab nurses participated in and led several presentations — and collected one big award.
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ExoNET
Can you build a minimally-actuated exo-robot as a wearable orthosis? Maybe one that is most simply built out of springs? It may not do everything, but what can you do? The secret is to allow networks of springs, and structural optimization algorithm that tells us how to build it.
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ExoNET for Gait
Is it possible to use a network of springs to make up for what the muscles do during walking and hence assist gait? This study shows the potential of the ExoNET device to reproduce the torques generated by your muscles while you walk. We feel that this structural design can guide devices in the future and may lead to clinical tools that are lightweight, unintimidating, easy to use, and inexpensive.
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People with Disabilities Make Employment Gains During Pandemic but Will They Last?
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to roil the U.S. labor market in 2021, but one group of workers has likely benefitted from the unprecedented disruption: people with disabilities.
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How Sled Hockey Helped Paralympian Josh Misiewicz Recover from Limb Loss
Paralympian Josh Misiewicz describes how playing sled hockey helped him recover from limb loss. "I don’t know where I’d be without it," he says.
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Real Time Control of a Powered Prosthetic Leg Using Implanted EMG Signals with Sensory Feedback
We will conduct a first-in-human clinical trial to evaluate the effect of incorporating intramuscular EMG signals (obtained using a fully wireless implantable system), compared to surface EMG signals, on function ambulation and non-weight-bearing control of a powered leg prosthesis.
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College Students Take Longer to Recover from a Concussion
It takes 7-14 days to recover from a concussion. Researchers questioned if it takes longer in college students who find it difficult to find time to recover.
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