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Listing: Youth with Disabilities Community Resources in Chicago

This select group of agencies provides support to parents of children with a disability in the Chicago area.

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Listing: Pain Resources

Pain makes life unbearable for some people who live in chronic pain as they search for solutions to situational problems of disease or residual trauma marks of accidents. In this listing of pain resources, you will find a comprehensive list of information to assist with your pain discomfort.

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Emotional Adjustment to Life Changing Events

Someone who has a newly acquired physical condition goes through a range of emotional and physical adjustments. Changes in independence, appearance, relationships and ability to work, drive, and do normal activities at home are all typical and can lead to:

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Listing: Home Health Care Agencies in the Northwest Indiana Area

Many home health care agencies also offer non¨Cmedical caregiver services, such as private duty care, home care aides, live¨Cin assistance, companionship, light housekeeping, and cooking.

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Henry B. Betts LIFE Center Information

Overview of the Henry B. Betts LIFE Center

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Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center MSKTC

Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC), is a national center that helps facilitate the knowledge translation process to make research meaningful to those with Spinal Cord Injury SCI - Traumatic Brain Injury TBI and Burn Injury.

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Peer Mentor Program at the Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91

Peer mentor program and the peers are available to patients and their families at the Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91, Streeterville and Wheeling Day Rehab.

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Todd Kuiken and Frank Ursetta of the Center for Bionic Medicine demonstrated CBM's convertible wheelchair at the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research¡¯s (NIDILRR) 40th anniversary on Thursday, Oct. 18

Center for Bionic Medicine Wheelchair Featured at NIDILRR Celebration

A revolutionary wheelchair developed by SRAlab researchers was prominently featured at a celebration for the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research¡¯s (NIDILRR) 40th anniversary on Thursday, Oct. 18.

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Dr. Monica Rho to Receive AAPM&R Award

Dr. Monica Rho Selected for AAPM&R¡¯s PASSOR Legacy Award and Lectureship

At the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation¡¯s (AAPM&R) Annual Assembly, Monica Rho, MD, chief, Musculoskeletal Medicine, will receive the prestigious 2020 PASSOR Legacy Award and Lectureship.

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Watch Meshari¡¯s story: New prosthetic legs help pediatric patient make huge strides

Meet Meshari, who traveled across the globe from Kuwait for rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91. Here, he learned to walk, kick and play with his new prosthetic legs.

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