#Prosthetics
Bionic limbs, robotic walking therapy, and brain stimulation are just some of the tools used to treat patients. Recent developments in the treatment of injuries and physical impairments have led to some amazing rehabilitation options for patients. Learn about the future of physical impairment medicine and rehabilitation with our panel of experts in prosthetics, spinal cord injury, and cognitive and communication disorders.
Join us at the brand-new Shirley Ryan AbilityLab facility downtown, tour their innovative labs, and enjoy a reception before the talk!
Speakers:
David Chen, MD
David Chen, MD, is the Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation program at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. He is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and the subspecialty of spinal cord medicine. Dr. Chen is also the co-project director for the Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System (MRSCICS), a federal program of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).
Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in medical textbooks on various subjects related to spinal cord medicine. He received his medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed his residency training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago/Northwestern University Medical School.
Leora Cherney, PhD
Leora R. Cherney, PhD, is the Scientific Chair, Think and Speak Lab, at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and Professor of both Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences & Disorders at Northwestern University. She has had more than 35 years of clinical experience working with adults with neurogenic communication disorders and is the founder and director of the AbilityLab’s Center for Aphasia Research and Treatment.
Dr. Cherney is board-certified in neurologic communication disorders by the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) and a Fellow of both the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Illinois Speech-Language Hearing Association. She has co-authored four books and has over 90 publications in refereed journals, textbooks, and other periodicals. She regularly presents at workshops and conferences nationally and internationally. Dr. Cherney’s research interests, which have been federally funded for 20+ years, have focused on treatment approaches for aphasia and on attention and discourse problems in adults with cognitive-communication disorders.
Levi Hargrove, PhD
Dr. Hargrove is currently the Director of the Center for Bionic Medicine and of the Neural Engineering for Prosthetic and Orthotics Laboratory at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. He is also an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.
A major goal of his research is to develop clinically realizable myoelectric control systems that can be made available to persons with limb loss in the near future. His research addresses all levels of amputation and has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine and multiple patents. Key projects include the development of advanced and adaptive control systems for prosthetic legs, improving control of robotic hand prostheses, and intramuscular EMG signal processing. In 2012, Dr. Hargrove co-founded Coapt, a company to transition advanced rehabilitation technologies from the research lab to patients’ homes.
Event Details
This program is open to the public. Reception and tours start at 5:30 PM, program starts at 6:30 PM. Please arrive in the lobby area and you will be directed. Due to volume and time constraints, tours are available to 60 people only. Please purchase the Program + Tour tickets before they sell out if you would like to take the tour.
Program Tickets are $5 and Program +Tour tickets are $10. Reception is included in both ticket types. All areas are wheelchair accessible.
Parking and Transportation
Parking is available on site at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for $11/hour. Please bring in your parking tickets for validation.
For public transportation options, please use https://www.transitchicago.com/ to help plan your trip.
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Tricking amputees into accepting their prosthetic
A huge problem faced by amputees is that their prosthetic limb does not feel like it is part of their body.
Also amputees often feel the limb they have lost even though it is not there.
The use of virtual reality is helping those with prosthetic arms feel like these limbs are part of their own body.
Scientists have used sensory images to assess whether amputee nervous systems can adopt the artificial limb as part of the body.
If amputees ‘see’ the limb as part of their body using illusions of virtual reality it is more likely it will feel like it is their body.
Vision and touch have been used together in this way to trick the brains of amputees into thinking the artificial limb is theirs. Source.
Journal Reference:
Giulio Rognini, Francesco Maria Petrini, Stanisa Raspopovic, Giacomo Valle, Giuseppe Granata, Ivo Strauss, Marco Solcà, Javier Bello-Ruiz, Bruno Herbelin, Robin Mange, Edoardo D’Anna, Riccardo Di Iorio, Giovanni Di Pino, David Andreu, David Guiraud, Thomas Stieglitz, Paolo Maria Rossini, Andrea Serino, Silvestro Micera, Olaf Blanke. Multisensory bionic limb to achieve prosthesis embodiment and reduce distorted phantom limb perceptions. Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (2018). DOI:10.1136/jnnp-2018-318570
Girl with 3D-printed hand throws first pitch at Blue Jays game
8 year old Haley Dawson threw out the first pitch at the Blue Jays game against the Boston Red Sox at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Tuesday August 7, 2018 with her 3D-printed hand.
Hailey - born in the US with Poland Syndrome, received her prosthetic hand from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas about 4 years ago.
Since then she has thrown out the first pitch at 24 out of 30 baseball stadiums. Source.
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In this camp we'll be exploring what different types prosthetics people use and how we can design our own to help other adults, kids and even animals that have a disability. From the Bionic eye to robotic arms, this camp has it all!
This camp will run July 9 - 12 from 1pm 4pm. Ages 7 and up!
Jul 9, 2018 at 1 PM to Jul 12, 2018 at 4 PM CDT
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