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    In the News: NBC 5 Profiles Patient Following COVID Double Lung Transplant and 11-Month Hospitalization
        
  On May 26, NBC 5 Chicago aired a report on Roberto Rodriguez from Waukegan, who was discharged from SRAlab's 19th Floor Nerve, Muscle & Bone Innovation Center.
      
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    The ADA 30 Years Later: Despite Improvements to Accessibility, Challenges for People With Physical Disabilities Remain
        
  Environmental modifications have reduced barriers for people with physical disabilities to work in many office buildings and attend classes in public schools and universities.
      
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    Home- and Community-Based Services Succeed in Reducing Institutionalization But Vary Greatly from State to State
        
  Read how home- and community-based services succeed in reducing institutionalization but vary greatly from state to state.
      
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Maggie Winston: Turning Trials into Triumph, Fighting for Home- and Community-Based Services Expansion
        
  Learn more about Maggie Winston and how she turned trials into triumph, fighting for home-and community-based services expansion.
      
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Steven Lutzky: Helping Create Systemic Change in Home- and Community-Based Services
        
  Learn more about Steven Lutzky and how he helps create systemic change in home- and community-based services.
      
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    Meet Ala Elyaman, DO, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s first Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Neurorehabilitation Fellow
        
  For the first time in the history of the organization, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is offering a one-year fellowship in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and Movement Disorders (PDMD) Neurorehabilitation, with lead support provided by the Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson’s.
      
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    HCBS Webinar: The Evolution of Person-Centered Practices
        
  Understand more about person-centered practices, person-centered skills  and evolving efforts related to person-centered planning.
      
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    Kristen Cotton Admitted to PhD Program at UIC
        
  Regenerative Neurorehabilitation Lab's Research Assistant, Kristen Cotton, has been accepted into the PhD program at UIC for Fall 2021.
      
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    Dr. Mitra Lavasani and Team Publish Research Investigating New Cell Therapy for Osteoarthritis
        
  The journal Aging and Disease recently published a paper by Shirley Ryan AbilityLab researchers investigating a new treatment of OA using systemically delivered cell therapy.
      
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Survey Finds Need for Improved Way to Measure Quality of Orthotics Care
        
  To get a better handle on the situation, researchers at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab surveyed orthotists and physical therapists around the country on their perspectives on quality-of-care indicators for people who use custom ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs).
      
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APTA Magazine Feature
        
  Summary of APTA CSM session “Did Major Research in the Last Decade Change Practice? Locomotor Training, Gadgets, Intensity, or Everything Works” featuring Dr. Jayaraman.
      
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        Ability Quotient
                
  Rehabilitation, unlike other medical specialties, has no equivalent to an objective blood test or an X-ray to help measure or direct the results of treatment. 
            
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