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This project at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) establishes a new Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center, Collaborative Machines Enhancing Therapies (COMET), focusing on advancing technologies that work in partnership with patients and clinicians to enhance gait and dexterity outcomes for individuals with stroke and spinal cord injury (SCI) and other people with disabilities in a real-life rehabilitation setting.
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This project aims to produce technological innovations that improve therapeutic outcomes, advance the state of knowledge regarding technology-enabled therapy techniques and interventions, and educate and share this new knowledge with practitioners. Project outcomes include increasing clinician knowledge and improving practices, as well as utilizing new knowledge to determine the effectiveness and clinical uptake of rehabilitation therapy technologies. Products include new therapy technologies, commercial translation with Center partners, new methods of study, scientific publications, and educational materials. This multi-institutional collaboration includes partnerships with the University of California at Irvine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, North Carolina State University, Delft University of Technology, Harvard University, and several commercial, clinical, and consumer stakeholders.