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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program recently announced a $5 million award to Project Drive, a multidisciplinary partnership that aims to bring the first active driving assistance system for power wheelchairs to the consumer market. The principal investigator of the NSF-funded project is Brenna Argall, PhD, research scientist and director, Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics Laboratory (argallab).

The Center for Smart Use of Technologies to Assess Real World Outcomes (C-STAR) offers the expertise, instruction and mentorship to educate rehabilitation researchers on the meaningful use of a vast array of technologies in the lab, clinic and community.

DeMarcus P. came to Shirley Ryan ÌÀÍ·Ìõapp after his left foot was amputated following a work accident. Through intensive inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, he regained strength and learned to walk using a prosthetic leg. DeMarcus also discovered healing in our art therapy program ¡ª utilizing his creativity to process the frustration and emotional stress of his injury and recovery.

Shirley Ryan ÌÀÍ·Ìõapp is the global leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation. In keeping with our founding mission of equality and access for all, we embrace diversity in all its forms and we champion ideas, inclusivity and action.

It's important to be confident about the quality of care you or a loved one will receive when entering a rehabilitation or treatment program. There are certain things to look for and questions to ask when narrowing down your list of options.

The Journal of Neurophysiology recently published a review by Adenike Adewuyi, MD PhD ¡ª a 2022 graduate of Shirley Ryan ÌÀÍ·Ìõapp¡¯s physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) residency program ¡ª and her mentor, Colin Franz, MD, PhD, physician-scientist, at Shirley Ryan ÌÀÍ·Ìõapp. The review defines a clinical framework for evaluating patients with spinal cord injuries to determine their candidacy for nerve transfer surgery.

Our laboratory uses neural prosthetics to improve both our understanding of brain function as well as restoring movement and communication.

This lab offers this sophisticated gait assessment through the use of specialized cameras, computer technology captures and measures muscle activity.

We are working to understand the nature of the somatosensory and motor signals within the brain that control our movements.

We focus on executive function and social cognition, their representations in the brain, and ways to improve these functions in patients with brain damage.

Our research focuses on developing neural control systems for upper and lower prosthetics.