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COVID Care Unit Honored in Crain¡¯s ¡°Notable Health Care Heroes¡± Feature

Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91's COVID Care Unit Honored in Crain¡¯s ¡°Notable Health Care Heroes¡± Feature

Crain¡¯s Chicago Business recently featured SRAlab¡¯s COVID Care Unit in its ¡°Notable Health Care Heroes¡± feature, which highlighted individuals and teams on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 in our community.

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June is Aphasia Awareness Month!

Join our Center for Aphasia Research and Treatment in spreading awareness this month!

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At home workout series from Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91

At Home Workout: Lower Back

This exercise routine entails general core strengthening and low back mobility for any population capable of independently laying down on a surface and getting into the supine, quadruped, and prone positions.

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Training for the Chicago Marathon? Stick to Your Training Plan & Start Now

Teachers always say ¡°don¡¯t cram for a test¡± ¡ª well, the same applies to running a marathon. You can¡¯t cram a six-month training plan into three months and expect the same results.

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Pelvic Floor: Where Kegels Come in

Stop me if you¡¯ve heard this advice from a well-meaning person in your life: ¡°Do your Kegels¡­¡± but with no other instructions on how to do them or how often. What even is a Kegel anyway?

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What Is Your Pelvic Floor? And Why You Should Stop Ignoring It

The pelvic floor is a bowl of muscles at the bottom of the pelvis that helps to control bowel, bladder and sexual function. It consists of three layers from superficial to deep that have differing functions.

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Sitting All Day May Be Causing Your Jaw Pain

Have you noticed tension in your jaw, face or neck? Headaches? Clicking or popping while chewing? Pain when yawning? These symptoms may be associated a condition known as Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction, or TMJ ¡ª and may be linked with prolonged sitting or postural changes.

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Sit for Five Minutes & Improve Your Posture

If you find yourself sitting for most of the day, you may feel tension throughout certain areas of the midback and neck. Without appropriate interventions, tissues in these areas can become stiff, weak, tight or too loose. And, imbalanced muscles often contribute to poor posture and can potentially lead to an injury.

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ABC7: Chicago coronavirus survivor returns home after 10 weeks in 2 hospitals, rehab center

It took two and a half months, but Marian Steele fought COVID-19 and won, and now she's back home.

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WBEZ: How One Chicago-Area Family Survived COVID-19

Sandy Wilson-Muriel and her mother Gladys Wilson were the first in their family to get sick with COVID-19 in mid-March.

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At Home Workout: STOMPS

Strengthening and Optimal Movements for Painful Shoulders, STOMPS for short, is a home-based exercise program that has been shown to be effective in reducing long-standing shoulder pain in people with spinal cord injury.

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Specialized Immune Cells May Improve Early Detection of Parkinson¡¯s Disease

The elevated presence of specialized immune cells called alpha-synuclein reactive T-cells found in patients prior to developing motor symptoms and receiving a diagnosis of Parkinson¡¯s disease, suggests that increased reactivity of these cells may be present long before clinical diagnosis.

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