Conferences and Webinars
AR3T
Orthobiologics & Regenerative Medicine Webinar Series
Led by the AAP’s Resident/ Fellow Council and AR3T, this webinar series’ aims to provide comprehensive education for physicians-in-training and physiatrists interested in regenerative rehabilitation, while reducing stigma, misinformation, and encouraging responsible advancements for the regenerative field.
Register here for the LAST webinar to be held Tuesday, April 5, 2022 @ 7:00PM EST!
C-PROGRESS
Precision Neuroscience Conference
May 25 – 27, 2022 in Roanoke, VA
Advancing neuroscience-based precision medicine and hosted every two years, the conference attracts 200+ neuroscientists, resident and attending physicians, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.
Attend the 2022 three-day conference for just $275 for regular attendees and $75 USD for graduate students.
Learn more on the Precision Neuroscience website.
C-STAR
New C-STAR Webinars Available for Free Viewing
Our highly collaborative scientists and clinicians will share their knowledge, experience and technical and clinical know-how with you to provide training and enhance expertise across the field of rehabilitation research and practice. You will find sixteen webinars available in the Academy library. The following are those most recently released:
MyndMove: How Functional Electrical Stimulation Therapy for Reaching and Grasping Can be Used to Overcome Paralysis.
This webinar is led by Milos R. Popovic, PhD, Institute Director - KITE, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - University Health Network and Tenured Professor, University of Toronto. In this lecture, Dr. Popovic presented a Functional Electrical Stimulation Therapy for reaching and grasping, which does not belong to a typical “garden variety” neuroprostheses that one can commonly find discussed in the literature. In the literature, the neuroprostheses for grasping are used to replace and substitute function, and patients are expected to depend on these devices their entire lives to reach and grasp objects. This lecture will showcase a neuroprosthetic application, better known as Functional Electrical Stimulation Therapy, which is aimed at restoring voluntary arm and hand function after severe stroke and spinal cord injury, instead of making the users depend on technology to perform reaching and grasping. In the lecture, the results of Phase II randomized control trials will be presented, which were pivotal for this technology to become a commercially viable product. At the end of the lecture, I will talk about the commercialization efforts involved in getting this therapy and turning it into a product, better known as MyndMove.
Promising Features of Future Robot-Aided Therapy
This webinar is led by Robert Reiner, PhD, Full Professor for Sensory-Motor Systems, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich; Full Professor of Medicine, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich.
Robots can be very useful to restore upper and lower limb movement abilities of individuals with neurological or orthopedic lesions. However, current mechatronic solutions are still too bulky, and their sensory technologies and control strategies are still too primitive to support the correct motion and motion intention. Furthermore, they still require a lot of effort, labor and/or surveillance by a human therapist. Consequently, the use of the robots is less intensive than it could be, and robots are not yet broadly accepted by patients and medical staff. Therefore, we need to change the function and use of the rehabilitation robots to increase acceptability, therapy outcome and, eventually, quality of life of those who require physio or occupational therapy. For example, novel devices should provide effective assist-as-needed support and become more convenient and easier to use by both patients and therapists. In this talk Dr. Reiner presented new technical features and ideas that may improve the rehabilitation of arm movements and gait.
LeaRRn
VIRTUAL INSTITUTE
Register Now for the Virtual Institute, "Rehabilitation Payment Models: Innovation, Research, Policy" on June 21 & 23, 2022.
This institute will include discussion of Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) / Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), Bundled Payment, Quality Measures, Alternative Payment Models, Future Research, and more. The Keynote will be provided by Robert Kaplan, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and Adjunct Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, Clinical Excellence Research Center. Registration is complimentary but required.
WEBINAR SERIES
LeaRRn's Webinar series has concluded for the year. You can view all of LeaRRn's archived events here and listen to webinars from our first season on LeaRRn's podcast here.
APPLIED LEARRNING CASES
LeaRRn is pleased to introduce a new resource called Applied LeaRRning Cases, which provide examples of how rehabilitation researchers have used Learning Health Systems (LHS) research competencies in real world settings. Each Applied LeaRRning case includes: an Applied LeaRRning Case description, an accompanying presentation video, curated resources to deepen LeaRRning, and links to related topics in the LeaRRn Resource Database.
Click here to access our first Applied LeaRRning Case on Improvement & Implementation Science presented by Dr. Gerard Brennan, PT, PhD, FAPTA.
NC NM4R
Current Topics in Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) Spring Workshop,
June 1-2, 2022
Join the NC NM4R for the upcoming Spring Workshop focused on Current Topics in Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES). The workshop will be offered in a hybrid format with in-person participation on Medical University of South Carolina's campus in Charleston, SC and online live-streaming via Zoom. In-person registration will be limited on a first-come, first-served basis. Stay tuned for upcoming information about this workshop including more registration information!
2021-2022 Speaker Series
This series will explore diverse neuromodulation methods with a focus on rehabilitation. Researchers and clinicians of all career stages (including students and fellows), who are interested in neuromodulation and novel rehabilitation techniques, are invited. At each meeting, a speaker will present a topic, study, or grant proposal relating to the improvement of rehabilitation techniques through the use of neuromodulation. The attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions, exchange ideas and opinions, and develop informal discussions. This monthly meeting aims to present innovative ideas and cutting-edge methods for clinicians and researchers.
Learn more about the speaker series and view upcoming events, here.
This Speaker Series will continue with Til Ole Bergmann, Ph.D., and Umair Hassan, presenting “The BEST Toolbox: Increasing Objectivity, Reliability, and Reproducibility in Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Research” on Wednesday, April 6th at 12 PM Eastern.
Register on the Speaker Series Webpage.
Restore
Webinar on Estimating Energy Expenditure Using Wearables: We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinar with Patrick Slade from Stanford University. He will present an overview of an algorithm that can provide real-time estimates of energy expenditure during common steady-state and time-varying activities with substantially lower error than state-of-the-art methods. In the second part of the webinar, Dr. Slade will guide participants through a hands-on tutorial on applying the algorithm to data acquired from inertial measurement units (IMUs). This event is held jointly with the Mobilize Center on Wednesday, May 4th, 2022, at 9:00 AM Pacific Time. Register now | Paper
Dataset of Upper-Body Motion from Individuals during Rehabilitation Post-Stroke: Heidi Schambra, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at NYU, has made available an upper-body motion dataset of 55 rehabilitating stroke patients. Data was acquired using inertial measurement units (IMUs) and includes movements with both the paretic and non-paretic arm. The data are labeled with functional primitives, such as reach and transport (Shambra et al., 2019). The Restore Center encourages and supports researchers in making their study data accessible. Download data | Learn more
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