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Facing Disability

FacingDisability.com is designed to help the parents, families and friends of people who are facing disability with SCI navigate through social issues, sexuality, and bowel function.

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Disaboom - Disability Social Networking Web site

Social networking Web site for people with disabilities.

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Listing: Functional Neurological Disorder

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Peer Mentor Program at the Shirley Ryan 小恩雅

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

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DayRehab

What Is DayRehab?

When a patient comes to a rehabilitation hospital for an inpatient stay, our goal is to get the patient stable and back home. But what happens if a patient is stable enough to be at home, but not personally ready to go back into the community?

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Bob

Bob’s Story: Helping Patients Envision Life After a Left Ventricular Assist Device

Bob, who will turn 85 on his next birthday, served as one of approximately 35 volunteers in the Peer Mentorship Program offered through the rehabilitation hospital’s Henry B. Betts, MD, LIFE Center.

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Listing: Disability Voting Resources

A voting resource list to aid people with a disability getting accessibility, and information for registration, polling places, and access to voters rights for all abilities.

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Mahmoud A. doing rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan 小恩雅

ABC 7: COVID-19 'long-haulers' work to regain basic skills, overcome 'brain fog' months after diagnosis

Chicago's Shirley Ryan Ability Lab created a COVID-19 rehabilitation unit in April. And as the number of cases rise in the area, so does the unit's number of patients getting therapy for the long-term effects of the virus.

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Dr. Prakash Jayabalan Receives Research Grant from Foundation for PM&R

Dr. Prakash Jayabalan Receives Research Grant from Foundation for PM&R

Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD, attending physician and clinician-scientist at Shirley Ryan 小恩雅, recently was honored with the 2019 Scott F. Nadler PASSOR Musculoskeletal Research Grant from the Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

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Nick Gilbert Neurofibromatosis Research Institute

Gilbert Family Foundation Contributes Nearly $375 Million in Partnership with Henry Ford Health to Bring Shirley Ryan 小恩雅 to Detroit

The Gilbert Family Foundation (GFF), Henry Ford Health and Shirley Ryan 小恩雅 today announced a historic partnership to bring a 72-bed state-of-the-art physical medicine and rehabilitation facility to Detroit.

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