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 next webinar with Dr. Gerard Malanga (New Jersey Regenerative Institute) to be held Tuesday, March 1, 2022 @ 7:00PM EST!
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 eleven webinars available in the Academy library. The following are those most recently released:
Biological and Bionic Hands: Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception
Learn about advancements in neural coding and artificial perception in this course taught by Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, James and Karen Frank Family Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at The University of Chicago's Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy.
Determining Neural Mechanisms Underlying Motor Impairments Following Unilateral Brain Injury Using Engineering Approaches: Impact on Rehabilitation
Taught by Julius P. A. Dewald, PT, PhD, Professor and Chair at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, this course explores the use of engineering approaches to determine neural mechanisms and motor impairments following a brain injury.
Merging Humans and Machines to Assist Walking and Running: Robotic Exoskeletons, Bionic Prostheses and Mobile Brain Imaging
Join this on-demand webinar as Daniel Ferris, PhD, Robert W. Adenbaum Professor in Engineering Innovation, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor, University of Florida, teaches you how the latest developments in robotic exoskeleton technology, bionic prostheses and mobile brain imaging can assist walking and running.
IdeaLab | Turn your ideas into life-changing solutions
Any research idea that has the potential to improve human ability may be presented by scientists or clinicians. On a regular basis, we hold interactive IdeaLabs, gathering physicians, scientists, nurses, engineers, therapists and entrepreneurs who have an interest related to the idea up for consideration. IdeaLabs afford C-STAR investigators the invaluable opportunity to present a novel idea in one of these forums uniquely focused on their specific idea. Such critical feedback enhances applicants’ research focus and increases the chances of funding.
Ideas presented in this forum:
o Instrumenting Everyday Objects
o Remote tracking of tummy time in term and preterm infants in real-world settings using wearable sensors: A validation study
o A broad-spectrum method for evaluation of dexterity in children
o Real-time mobile cognitive assessments for stroke rehabilitation
o A Gesture-to-speech recognition system
o Balance is vital: Establishing home-based clinical reference data with smartphone accelerometry
o Automated Stuttering Severity Assessment
o Real-time physiological and motor monitoring for aquatic therapy and rehabilitation
o Miniature foot-mounted device that provides real-time kinematic information
o Video-based estimation of facial kinematics for detecting Parkinson’s disease and predicting its severity
See our C-STAR website for more details about IdeaLabs or contact CSTARIdeaLabs@sralab.org.
LeaRRn
INSTITUTE
Register Now for the 2022 Virtual Institute, "Rehabilitation Payment Models: Innovation, Research, and Policy."
This Institute, co-sponsored by LeaRRn and CoHSTAR, will take place on June 21 & 23, 2022, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET, with a Poster Slam on June 21, 5:00 - 7:00 PM ET.
Now accepting abstracts for poster presentations!
Click here for more information on how to submit.
Submissions are due April 1, 2022.
WEBINAR SERIES
Register now for upcoming events in LeaRRn's Series, “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”
Miriam Rafferty, PT, DPT, PhD will present a Grand Rounds, "Application of Sustainability Frameworks and Assessments in Rehabilitation – A 4 Year Implementation Project" on February 9, 2022 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM ET.
Mark Helfand, MD, MS, MPH will present a Webinar, "Systematic Review Approaches to Optimize Learning Health Systems" on March 4, 2022 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET.
Our final Grand Rounds of the season will be on March 23, 2022 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET and will feature Susan L. Whitney, DPT, PhD, NCS, ATC, FAPTA presenting, “Guideline Implementation: Moving Evidence into Clinical Practice,” and colleagues Kelly Tanner, PhD, OTR/L, BCP and Victoria Nicole Baker, OTD, OTR/L presenting, “Implementing Occupational Therapy Clinical Practice Guidelines in an Outpatient Pediatric Hospital-based Setting”
You can view all of LeaRRn's archived events 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
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 was launched with Bashar Badran, Ph.D., presenting “Developing Novel Therapeutics – Focused Ultrasound and Auricular Neuromodulation as Alternatives to Implantable Brain Stimulation” on Wednesday, December 1st at 12 PM Eastern.
We are pleased to offer a video recording of his talk here.
Restore
Watch Webinar Recording on “OpenSense: Analyzing Motion with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Data”
OpenSense is free and open-source software to compute the motions of body segments based on inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. It was developed at Stanford University as part of the NIH-funded Mobilize and Restore Centers. If you missed our webinar about OpenSense, you can watch the recordings:
Read publication | See the full list of resources | Download OpenSense
Open-Source Software for Automatic Subregional Assessment of Knee Cartilage Degradation
Members of the Restore Center team and colleagues have developed a deep learning model that automatically assesses knee cartilage degradation from MRIs. The results of the model agree with those of an expert as closely as experts agree with one another. The study was published in the December issue of Cartilage. The software and a demo website have also been made available.
Read publication | Try model on your own MRIs | Access software | Learn more
An Open-Source Low-Cost Wearable System for Measuring 3D Motion in Real-Time
Want to monitor human movement in the wild? We have developed OpenSenseRT, a wearable motion capture system that uses IMUs to compute joint motion in real-time. The system is low-cost ($100-$300), lightweight (400g), open-source, customizable, simple to build (no soldering or coding), and has similar accuracy to commercial systems. The system is described in this month’s issue of IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering.
Read publication | Read instructions to build your own system
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