Stretchable Electronics for Stroke Rehabilitation
An innovative device worn on the throat offers exciting possibilities in the rehabilitation of stroke patients. The device, developed in the lab of Northwestern University professor John A. Rogers in conjunction with the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, allows patients to be monitored both while they are hospitalized and after they go home. The device’s position on […]
The Future of Rehab: RIC’s Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
When the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago looks to the future, it sets its sights high. In this case, high is its impressive new home: the 27-story Shirley Ryan AbilityLab that aims to rethink the future of research and patient care. After eight years and $550 million, RIC will celebrate the grand opening of its new […]
Feldenkrais Method Addresses Restricted Movement, Pain
The development of the Feldenkrais Method, an educational process created to make movement easier and more efficient, was inspired by an accident. When Russian-born Moshe Feldenkrais, a physicist and mechanical engineer with a black belt in judo, had a debilitating knee injury in the 1940s, he developed sequences of movements that allowed him to regain […]
Act Fast to Help Stroke Care
By Eve Becker Last January, Mark Kirk woke up with a headache. It worsened as the morning progressed, followed by vision problems and numbness in his hands. Symptoms became alarmingly more severe. His staff drove him to the emergency room, where it was determined that the junior senator from Illinois had suffered an ischemic stroke; […]
