| CABRR: Research Tracks |
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Rehabilitation Robotics:
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Develops new tools for clinicians to enhance the quality and duration of standardized physical therapy interventions. |
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Uses the Lokomat and IM2 upper limb robot to explore the effectiveness of robotic devices to improve function and to assess function in individuals with neurological injuries.
--Gait restoration in stroke and incomplete SCI patients using the Lokomat robotic treadmill system.
--Robotic Assessment of Walking Ability Following Neurological Injury.
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Develops, builds, and tests new devices. |
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Telerehabilitation:
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Develops, tests, and explores integration of teleSLP (provision of speech-language pathology services using telecommunications technology) systems into clinical practice.
--Technology for Enhanced Rehabilitation Interaction |
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Explores the efficacy of using the IM2 arm robot to assess function and provide physical therapy over the Internet. |
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Develops software tools for providing computer-enhanced rehabilitation interventions.
--Computerized Cognitive and Communicative Treatment for Survivors of Brain Injury |
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Locomotion and Balance:
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Develops quantitative tools for evaluating how people walk, in terms of how stable they are, how much endurance they have, and the quality of their leg movements. |
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Identifies gait impairments and targets therapeutic interventions for treating them. |
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Neuroimaging:
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Seeks to understand brain recovery by investigating how nerves in the brain reorganize after injury. |
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Studies the effects of different types of therapeutic interventions on enhancing brain reorganization. |
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Neuromuscular Systems:
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Studies behaviors such as spasticity, muscle weakness, and other complications commonly associated with stroke and spinal cord injury. |
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Seeks to understand better the causes of these behaviors to develop more effective treatments for controlling them. |