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The Shirley Ryan Abilitylab

The Shirley Ryan Abilitylab is recognized as #1 in rehabilitation for 28 years in a row. AbilityLab introduces its revolutionary care through 5 Innovation Centers - state-of-the-art hospital facilities and equipment for exceptional patient care provided by the best medical and nursing support. Each Innovation Center focuses on an area of biomedical science with extraordinary promise: Brain; Spinal Cord; Nerve, Muscle & Bone; Pediatric and Cancer. We integrate the best medical and research experts together in real time. We innovate ways to speed recovery from medical conditions that affect ability. We've made our life's work helping people advance ability…ability of the mind, body and spirit. Because of our reputation for excellence and breakthroughs, we attract the best doctors, therapists, nurses and researchers: the best expertise means the best outcomes for our patients. Our 5 Ability Labs, each focusing on specific functional outcomes, are dynamics spaces where interdisciplinary teams provide a full range of therapeutic services and develop new research-based insights to help patients gain function, achieve better outcomes and enjoy greater independence. AbilityLab’s research enterprise is the largest of its kind and renowned for breakthroughs in biomedical, neural, mechanical and electrical engineering; molecular/cellular biology; robotics and pharmacotherapeutics. We have more than 350 studies + trials under way — human-subject, applied research and proof-of-concept testing - Shirley Ryan AbilityLab runs the largest active research enterprise in the rehabilitation field of medicine. The Arms + Hands Lab is a robust environment designed for patients and research participants working on recovering and strengthening complex hand and reaching skills — turning a key, picking up a pen, putting on a sweater…all the many things we do with our hands, arms and fingers. The Harris Family Foundation Arms + Hands Lab spans two floors in the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (21-22), which are connected by a therapeutic, practical and graceful flight of stairs. In this Lab patients, doctors and researchers work on advancing hand function and movement, body and upper-limb coordination, strength, reaching and hand control (including individual finger manipulation). Therapeutic care and scientific interventions include one-on-one and group therapeutic activities. State-of-the-art research methods and approaches in this Lab include experimental electromyography, movement analysis, kinetic analysis, biomechanics, sensor technologies, brain and/or other imaging, brain physiology, musculoskeletal physiology, experimental biologics, experimental pharmacotherapeutics, and emerging technologies and use of smart devices. The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab provides an outstanding professional environment and the professional satisfactions of being the best. In addition we also offer some of the most competitive benefits in the field.

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